1. David Lander served as a goodwill ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
13 Facts About David Lander
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David Lander studied at the High School for the Performing Arts and continued at Carnegie Tech and New York University.
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David Lander appeared in numerous other TV shows, including The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Happy Days, Viva Valdez, Married.
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David Lander played "Tanning Intruder" in Christmas with the Kranks.
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David Lander's voice acting roles included the "dramatic reproduction" of Elvis Presley quotations for the Pop Chronicles music documentary and the voice of Jerry Lewis in the Filmation series Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down in 1970.
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David Lander voiced "Doc Boy" Arbuckle, the farm-boy brother of Jon Arbuckle, in most animated adaptations of the Garfield franchise.
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David Lander was the voice of Smart Ass, the chief weasel of Judge Doom's Toon Patrol in the 1988 Disney film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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David Lander reprised his role as Smart Ass on the related ride, but the character was renamed Wiseguy.
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David Lander was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, the baseball sabermetrics organization, for many years.
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David Lander was married to Thea Markus from 1969 until the couple divorced in 1976.
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David Lander was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1984.
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David Lander went public in 1999 and regularly spoke at related conventions.
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David Lander died of complications from multiple sclerosis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on December 4,2020.