DALLAS STAR LARRY HAGMAN DEAD AT 81 YEARS

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LOSS OF A TELEVISION LEGEND

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Patrick Duffy With Linda Gray And Larry Hagman

I Dream Of Jeannie and Dallas star Larry Hagman, has died at 81.

 The actor played the famed role of oil baron J.R. Ewing on Dallas and Tony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie.

The actor, who returned this year as J.R. in a new edition of the hit show "Dallas"  had a very long history of health problems and died Friday due to complications from his battle with cancer, his family said.

"Larry was back in his beloved hometown of Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved the most. Larry's family and closest friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday," the family said in a statement by Warner Bros., the producer of the show.

The 81-year-old actor was surrounded by friends and family before he passed peacefully, "just as he'd wished for," the statement said.

Linda Gray, his on-screen wife and later ex-wife in the original series and the sequel, was among those with Hagman in his last moments in a Dallas hospital, said her publicist, Jeffrey Lane.

"He brought joy to everyone he knew. He was creative, generous, funny, loving and talented, and I will miss him enormously. He was an original and lived life to the fullest," the actress said.


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