Arte Johnson, a lurking presence on U.S. television's "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" as a lecherous geriatric and a comic German soldier who found things on the show "verrry interesting" — but not necessarily funny — died on Wednesday at the age of 90, his family said.
Johnson died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from heart failure following a three-year battle with bladder and prostate cancer, a statement from his family said.
The versatile Johnson won an Emmy for his work on Dan Rowan and Dick Martin's "Laugh-In" in 1969 and was among the troupe members who developed breakout characters.