LOS ANGELES - Larry Harmon, 83, a Toledo native who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died of congestive heart failure yesterday.
Though not the original Bozo, Mr. Harmon portrayed the popular clown in countless appearances and, as an entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others, particularly dozens of television stations around the country. The TV stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos.
"You might say, in a way, I was cloning BTC [Bozo the Clown] before anybody else out there got around to cloning DNA," Mr. Harmon told the Associated Press in a 1996 interview.
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