David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixonand Lyndon Johnson and other prominent political figures vaulted him to popularity in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 77.
Frye died Monday of cardiopulmonary arrest at his Las Vegashome, Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said Saturday.
He had a wide-ranging cast of characters, but he specialized in impressions of the era's political figures such as Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace and Nelson Rockefeller. "Frye bobs and weaves among the political heavyweights armed with perfect pitch and deadly accuracy," Time magazine wrote in 1970.
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