Martin Mull, a comic actor and musician familiar to fans of Arrested Development, Veep, and Roseanne, died this week, daughter Maggie Mull says. He was 80.
According to a Friday night Instagram post by Mull, her father “passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness. He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” she continued, noting that “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny.”
“My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the sign of a truly exceptional person—by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.”
Martin Mull rose to prominence in the 1970s, first as ill-fated domestic abuser Garth Gimble on the soap opera satire Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In spin-off Fernwood 2-Night, which similarly targeted talk shows, he played Barth Gimble, Garth’s twin.
