I Dream of Jeannie's Major Healy dies

Bill Daily, who played Major Roger Healey in 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, has died aged 91.

Bill Daily, the affable TV actor who starred as Major Roger Healey in I Dream of Jeannie as well as on The Bob Newhart Show, has died aged 91.

J. Patrick Daily says his father died on September 4 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The longtime Albuquerque resident was a staple on series of the 1960s through 1980s, notably as Bob Newhart's daffy neighbour, airline pilot Howard Borden, from 1972 to 1978.

In the 1980s, he appeared as psychiatrist Dr Larry Dykstra on NBC's ALF.

On I Dream of Jeannie, Daily co-starred with Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden on all five seasons of the NBC sitcom as Captain and then Major Healey, the best friend and fellow astronaut to Hagman.


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