Emmy Award-winning writer and actor Bob Einstein has died. The star, who was also known as Super Dave Osborne and portrayed Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm, lost his battle with cancer in California on Wednesday. Einstein began his career as a writer and picked up his first Emmy in the 1960s as part of the team behind The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. He picked up a second Emmy as a producer of Dick Van Dyke’s 1970s series Van Dyke and Company. He created bumbling stuntman Super Dave Osborne for a number of TV shows, including Showtime’s Super Dave, which ran from 1987-1991 and multiple episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Source: National Post January 02, 2019 20:15 UTC