Entertainment & Arts
John Ritter falls back on his own experience with siblings to play the role of a mentally retarded man.
Oct. 21, 2001
Archives
A Glendale jury on Friday cleared an emergency room doctor of negligence and liability in John Ritter’s death, holding he did everything he could to save the comic actor.
March 15, 2008
In a cameo courtroom appearance, actor Henry Winkler told jurors Wednesday that his friend John Ritter seemed in top form on the set of his television show Sept. 11, 2003, the day he died.
Feb. 14, 2008
Obituaries
Emmy Award-winning actor John Ritter, who died unexpectedly Thursday night, had a television career marked by comic bookends.
Sept. 13, 2003
Movies
Dorothy Fay Ritter, a leading lady for Buck Jones, William “Wild Bill” Elliott and other sagebrush screen heroes of the 1930s and ‘40s, including the man she married, singing cowboy Tex Ritter, has died.
Nov. 13, 2003
Television
The family of television star John Ritter has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital and medical staff who treated the 54-year-old actor after he collapsed on the set of the ABC sitcom “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter” last year.
Sept. 10, 2004
World & Nation
A lawyer for the actor’s widow says that doctors failed to properly diagnose his heart condition.
Feb. 12, 2008
California
A lawyer for the actor’s widow tells jurors that doctors failed to properly diagnose his heart condition.
John Ritter, my all-time favorite funnyman, made an indelible mark on physical comedy.
Sept. 20, 2003