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Peter Crombie portrayed the fan-favorite character “Loopy” Joe Davola on “Seinfeld.”
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Actor Peter Crombie, who portrayed the fan-favorite character “Loopy” Joe Davola on “Seinfeld,” has died Wednesday after a battle with an sickness.
He was 71.
Crombie’s ex-wife Nadine Kijner launched a touching tribute to Crombie on social media, breaking the information of his dying.
“It’s with shock and excessive unhappiness that I share my Ex-husband died this morning,” Kijner wrote on Instagram, sharing a montage of pictures from their wedding ceremony day.
“Thanks for thus many fantastic recollections and being such a very good man. Fly free into the Un-boundless supply of sunshine, Peter. Might you be greeted with love by your mother and father, and Oliver. So so many individuals liked you since you have been a form, giving, caring and artistic Soul.”
Kijer advised TMZ that Crombie had been battling a quick sickness earlier than his dying, however didn’t elaborate on what he was affected by.
“He was the kindest most caring, giving, thoughtful man. He was liked by all people, beneficiant, and by no means had something dangerous to say about anybody,” Kijer advised the outlet of her late ex-husband.
Crombie took on his recurring function as Loopy Joe Davola within the fourth season of the hit TV collection in 1992.
Crombie, who performed the weird and unhinged character terrorizing and threatening Jerry Seinfeld, stared in 5 episodes through the season.
His most notable look on the present was within the ninth episode of season 4, referred to as “The Opera,” the place his character is relationship and romantically obsessive about Elaine — performed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus — solely to grow to be psychotic with jealousy after studying Jerry had briefly dated.
Donning his most notable apparel from the present, a clown costume, Crombie’s character stalks Jerry and Elaine whereas they wait to see a manufacturing of “Pagliacci” — an opera a few clown who murdered his spouse and her lover.
The character was named for TV producer Joe Davola, who labored with Tollin/Robbins Productions.
His first credited performing function was within the TV film “Damaged Vows,” starring Tommy Lee Jones and Annette O’Toole in 1987.
Crombie made appearances on a handful of exhibits together with “Legislation & Order,” “Star Trek: Deep Area 9,” “L.A. Legislation,” “L.A. Firefighters,” “Picket Fences,” “NYPD Blue” and “Walker, Texas Ranger.”
Except for his tv credit, Crombie had roles in a handful of films through the late ’80s and yearly ’90s, together with “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Pure Born Killers,” “Se7en” and “The Doorways.”
After information broke of the actor’s dying, mates and people within the leisure trade shared variety and loving phrases to commemorate the actor.
“Am heartbroken by the dying of my good buddy Peter Crombie,” Comic Lewis Black posted on X. “He was a gifted artist. Not solely was he an exquisite actor however an immensely proficient author. Extra importantly he was as candy as he was clever and I’m a greater individual for figuring out him.”
“It’s with a tragic coronary heart that right this moment, I convey that my good buddy Peter Crombie has handed away,” His buddy, Invoice Stetz, wrote on Facebook. “For individuals who knew him, he was a mild and dependable buddy of soppy phrases and expressive work as an actor and a author. Relaxation in peace, Peter.”
“Exit Peter Crombie. Fantastic actor & author & human,” his buddy Pat Skipper wrote on Fb. “Liked by his many mates. Comfortable trails, my brother.”
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