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Star of Groundbreaking ’80s Cop Drama ‘Hill Street Blues’ Dies at 94
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Jon Cypher, who starred on all seven seasons of the police drama Hill Street Blues and played Prince Charming opposite Julie Andrews in the original TV production of Cinderella, has died at 94.
Cypher shot to fame overnight at age 25 after landing the role of Prince Charming in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s original musical adaptation of Cinderella in 1957, playing opposite Andrews, then 21.
The live, color broadcast drew more than 107 million viewers, with over 60 percent of U.S. households tuning in, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Cypher became a television mainstay as the calculating, politically ambitious police chief Fletcher Daniels on the critically acclaimed Hill Street Blues, which ran from 1981-87.
In his obituary, Cypher’s family said that he sang opera in four languages and “was known to burst out in song, bringing joy to every event.”