"Officer Levitt" from Barney Miller, Ron Carey, has passed away.

[GOPisEvil]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/TV/Obit_Carey.html

LOS ANGELES — Ron Carey, an actor best known for his work as a cocky, height-challenged policeman on the 1970s TV comedy "Barney Miller," has died. He was 71.

Carey died of a stroke Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Michael Ciccolini, an extended relative and family spokesman.

Carey had a recurring role on "Barney Miller" from 1976 to 1982 as Officer Carl Levitt, who yearned for a promotion to detective in the New York squad room run by Capt. Barney Miller (Hal Linden).

Carey also appeared in several Mel Brooks movies, including "High Anxiety" and "History of the World Part I."

[wildhorses]

1. may he rest in peace

:patriot:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I remember him as the redcap in "High Anxiety"

"I got it. I got it. <THUMP> I ain't got it." Hard to think of him as 71.

[devilgrrl]

3. ...

[proud patriot]

4. Bummer , he was great

"I got it , I got it , I got it , I got it , I don't got it" from
high anxiety ....

[Blue-Jay]

5. Yet Abe Vigoda is still miraculously alive.

[Vidar]

6. RIP Mr. Carey.

[Ishoutandscream2]

7. 71? Wow, now I'm showing my age

How sad that another person I enjoyed in show business has passed. I absolutely loved his character in Barney Miller.

[jobycom]

8. Levitt was the first gay character I remember seeing in a sitcom

The actor wasn't gay, to the best of my knowledge, but the character Carl Levitt came out in one episode that I still remember.

Good actor. One of the great sitcoms of all time. Hal Linden, Ron Glass, Abe Vigoda, Jack Soo...