Rhoda actor dies
David Groh was 68
David Groh, who starred in the hit Seventies US sitcom Rhoda, has died at the age of 68.He played the husband of Valerie Harper’s title character in the CBS comedy, a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
More than half of American TV viewers watched Rhoda’s wedding to Groh’s character Joe Gerard in the first series in 1974, making it one of the most-watched sitcom episodes ever.
However, at the start of the third series in 1976, the characters divorced – and ratings started to fall. However the New York-based show continued without Groh until 1979.
Groh, whose other credits included Get Shorty, Baywatch and General Hospital, died Tuesday of kidney cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Here’s the wedding scene from Rhoda:
Published: 15 Feb 2008
