CHICAGO — Actor Robin Eurich, best known as Bozo’s sidekick Rusty the Handyman on WGN-TV’s The Bozo Super Sunday Show, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 69.
Eurich started out in improvisational theater, attending and teaching at both the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown Colleges. He was also a founding member of Comedy Store Players with Robin Williams.
In 1994 he moved to Chicago to take part in The Bozo Super Sunday Show, which was broadcast both locally and nationally.
When Bozo went off the air in 2001, he joined Circus Sarasota and helped establish an education department for the Circus Arts Conservatory.
Eurich has appeared in numerous feature films and network TV shows.
He is survived by his son Nathan.
