Character actor Charles Nelson Reilly died on Friday from complications due to pneumonia, reports the New York Times. He was 76.  Reilly's career started in New York, taking acting classes with Steve McQueen and Hal Holbrook.  He won a Tony Award for his role in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 1962.  After he moved to Hollywood, he landed a role as the nosy, fussy neighbor Claymore Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs Muir, a charming series about the not-quite romance between a widow (Hope Lange) and the ghost of a long-dead seacaptain (Edward Mulhare) that shaped many young genre fans' concept of UST.  (Since many properties from that time period are being revisited, this one is probably due for a makeover any time now.)  More genre fans know him from his appearance as Jose Chung on The X-Files. 

Outside of fandom, Reilly was best known as a game show staple in the '70s and '80s, appearing on any game that wanted a celebrity.  He had a boisterous and flamboyant persona in these situations, one of the few actors at the time to be openly gay and happy about it.  His autobiographical "The Life of Reilly" came out last year cataloguing the quirky tale of who he was.

Reilly is survived by his long-time partner Patrick Hughes.