Martin Mull: Life in Pictures

Martin Mull, a comedian and musician familiar to fans Arrested development, veepAnd Roseannepassed away this week, daughter Maggie Mull speak. He is 80 years old.

According to one Friday night Instagram post of Mull, her father “died at home on June 27, after a courageous battle against a long illness. He was known to excel in every creative field imaginable and also was the guy who did the Red Roof Inn commercial,” she continued, noting that “He found that joke funny. He never wasn’t funny.”

“My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughters, friends and colleagues, artists, comedians and musicians, and—the mark of a truly special person—many, many dogs. I love him dearly.”

L.R. Loudon Wainright III, Joan Baez, Billy Crystal, Martin Mull and Steve Martin at the San Francisco Civic Center in 1977 in San Francisco, California.

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Martin Mull (left) and Burgess Meredeith (right) attend an event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, on July 11, 1978.

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Martin Mull rose to fame in the 1970s, first as the ill-fated domestic abuser Garth Gimble in the satirical soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In spin-off Fernwood 2 nightsalso aimed at similar talk shows, he played Barth Gimble, Garth’s twin brother.

Actor Martin Mull (far left)) and actress Penny Marshall (far right) at the Seventh Robert F. Kennedy Celebrity Tennis Tournament on August 26, 1978 at Forest Hills in Washington, D.C. New York City.

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