John Albert "Jack" Riley Jr

 John Albert "Jack" Riley Jr. (December 30, 1935 – August 19, 2016)

He was best known for playing Elliot Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show and for voicing Stu Pickles in the Rugrats franchise. After being discharged from the Army, Riley became a popular radio personality in Cleveland, along with his radio partner and "straight man" Jeff Baxter; The Baxter & Riley Show on WERE (1300 AM) featured not only music but comedy sketches and a slew of offbeat characters that Riley and Baxter voiced. Riley gave up the radio show in the mid 1960s and moved to Los Angeles, where his friend Tim Conway helped him receive work writing comedy sketches, which later led to acting opportunities. Riley was perhaps most famous for playing Elliot Carlin, the neurotic, sour and selfish patient on The Bob Newhart Show. Among his other TV credits are multiple appearances on such shows as "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" (parodying Lyndon Johnson), M*A*S*H, Barney Miller, Hogan's Heroes, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time, Gomer Pyle, Diff'rent Strokes and Night Court. He was also a favorite of Mel Brooks, appearing in several of his films: High Anxiety (1977), History of the World: Part I (1981), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and (cameo only) Spaceballs (1987).

He continued to work through the 1990's, making appearances on The Drew Carey Show and That 70's show, among other shows. Riley married in 1975, and had two children. Riley died on August 19, 2016 at the age of 80 in Los Angeles, due to pneumonia.