Ed Norton
Veteran
Oscar and Emmy winner Art Carney, who with Joyce Randolph represented the last surviving original cast members of TV classic The Honeymooners, died Sunday in Connecticut, five days after his 85th birthday.
Carney long had been in ill health.
Last month, Carney, who created the character Ed Norton for Jackie Gleason's pioneering comedy series, was tapped for induction into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. Ceremonies are to be held sometime in February.
In a show-biz career that dated back to the 1930s, and spanned Broadway, radio, prime time and the movies, it is The Honeymooners and Norton, the affable sewer worker to Gleason's short-fuse bus-driver Ralph Kramden, that defined Carney in the public eye.
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