Bill Daily, Sidekick on Hit 60S and 70S Sitcoms, Dies at 91

Bill Daily, the comic sidekick to leading men on the sitcoms “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Bob Newhart Show,” has died. Family spokesman Steve Moyer said Sept. 8, 2018 that Daily died of natural causes in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Sept. 6, 2018. He was 91. Mark J. Terrill/AP

LOS ANGELES—Bill Daily, the comic sidekick to leading men on the sitcoms “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Bob Newhart Show,” has died, a family spokesman said on Sept. 8.

Daily died of natural causes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sept. 6, at his home where he had been living with his son, spokesman Steve Moyer told The Associated Press.