Actor played sitcom father

Tony Award-nominated actor Louis Zorich, who played a grumpy Greek diner owner in The Muppets Take Manhattan and the father of Paul Reiser’s character on the NBC sitcom Mad About You, has died. He was 93. Jonathan Mason, a representative at the Buchwald talent agent, says Zorich died Jan. 30 at his home in New York. Zorich’s Broadway credits include Becket, The Odd Couple and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. He earned a Tony nomination for Hadrian VII in 1969. But he was perhaps best known as sporting goods salesman Burt Buchman on Mad About You from 19921999. “It’s me, Burt! Burt Buchman — your father!” he was known to trumpet when he entered the home of his son, played by Reiser.