Jay Thomas, the comic actor who starred on the sitcoms Murphy Brown and Cheers, has died. Don Buchwald, his agent and friend, reported his death due to cancer to The New York Daily News. Thomas played the obnoxious TV talk show host Jerry Gold (and Candice Bergen's, on-again, off-again boyfriend) on Murphy Brown from 1989-98 after his stint as Rhea Perlman’s husband Eddie LeBec on Cheers from 1987-89.