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Robert Guillaume Passes Away at 89

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Reuters - Two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Robert Guillaume, who became one of the most prominent black actors on U.S. television playing the cantankerous title character in the hit 1980s series "Benson," died of complications from prostate cancer on Tuesday, his wife said. He was 89.

The gravelly voiced Guillaume, who thrived in Broadway musicals before starring on the TV series "Soap" and its spinoff "Benson," died at his Los Angeles home, his wife Donna Brown Guillaume said in a statement. It is not known how long he had been battling cancer.

Robert Guillaume first played sarcastic and irascible butler Benson DuBois on the over-the-top soap opera parody series "Soap," which debuted in 1977 and also starred Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan and Billy Crystal.

His work on that show won Guillaume won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series in 1979.

His character became so popular that the ABC network created "Benson" for him and that series ran for seven seasons from 1979 to 1986. Guillaume's character had been a butler on "Soap" but on "Benson" he served as a state governor's director of household affairs, then state budget director, lieutenant governor and candidate for governor.

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