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David Groh | Rhoda's husband, 68

David Groh, 68, best known for his role on the 1970s TV sitcom Rhoda as the title character's husband, died of kidney cancer Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his family announced. Mr. Groh became a celebrity in 1974 when he starred as the easygoing Joe Gerard opposite Valerie Harper's neurotic Rhoda Morgenstern on the Mary Tyler Moore spinoff. But by the third season, the characters divorced and he was off the show. He later had recurring roles in such prime-time series as Police Story, Melrose Place and Law and Order and on daytime television as D.L. Brock on General Hospital . Born in New York, Mr. Groh was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. - Los Angeles Times

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David Groh, 68, best known for his role on the 1970s TV sitcom

Rhoda

as the title character's husband, died of kidney cancer Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his family announced.

Mr. Groh became a celebrity in 1974 when he starred as the easygoing Joe Gerard opposite Valerie Harper's neurotic Rhoda Morgenstern on the Mary Tyler Moore spinoff. But by the third season, the characters divorced and he was off the show.

He later had recurring roles in such prime-time series as

Police Story, Melrose Place

and

Law and Order

and on daytime television as D.L. Brock on

General Hospital

.

Born in New York, Mr. Groh was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.

- Los Angeles Times

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