page_title: Tom Bosley
section_title: Early career
hierarchical_section_title: Tom Bosley / Career / Early career
caption_attribution_description: Tom Bosley filming TV movie The Rebels.
context_page_description: Thomas Edward "Tom" Bosley was an American actor. Bosley is known for his role as Howard Cunningham in Happy Days. He also starred in roles in Murder, She Wrote and Father Dowling Mysteries. He starred in the Broadway musical Fiorello! that earned him a Tony Award.
context_section_description: Bosley played the Knave of Hearts in a Hallmark Hall of Fame telecast of Eva Le Gallienne's production of Alice in Wonderland in 1955. But his career began in a stage role based on New York City mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in the long Broadway musical Fiorello! (1959), for which he won a Tony Award. In 1994, Bosley originated the role of Maurice in the Broadway version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Bosley also toured as Cap'n Andy in Harold Prince's 1994 revival of Show Boat.
  His first movie role was in 1963, as would-be suitor of Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger. Other movies include; The World of Henry Orient, Divorce American Style, Yours, Mine and Ours, Gus and the television movie The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal. Bosley shared a heartfelt story about his life during the Holocaust in the documentary movie Paper Clips.
  Among his early television appearances was in the 1960 CBS summer replacement series, Diagnosis: Unknown, with Patrick O'Neal. In 1962, he played Assistant District Attorney Ryan in the episode "The Man Who Wanted to Die" on James Whitmore's ABC legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones. In 1969, he appeared in a comedy episode from The Virginians.
caption: Bosley (right) in 1979
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