Philip Perlman, frequent Cheers barfly turned character actor, has died at 95. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, his daughter, actress Rhea Perlman, said Philip Perlman died in Los ...

Philip Perlman, whose Emmy-winning daughter Rhea got him a job on a bar stool on the long-running sitcom Cheers, setting in motion a late-blooming second career as a character actor, has died.

After he retired as a manager of a toy company in Brooklyn, Perlman became an actor and frequently appeared in films opposite his son-in-law, Danny DeVito.