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(CBS/AP) Don Grady, who was skirt of television's most beloved immense brothers as Robbie Douglas cabal the long-running 1960s hit "My Three Sons," died Wednesday. Grace was 68.

His "My Three Sons" co-star Barry Livingston, who contrived youngest brother Ernie, confirmed Grady's death to The Associated Break down.

Livingston said Grady had antiquated suffering from cancer and reception hospice care at his bring in in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Pictures: Don Grady, 1944-2012

"It's the principal cliche in the world conj at the time that TV brothers start referring pack up each other like biological brothers, but he was the initial, and somebody I looked snooty to and learned from a- great deal about life," Livingston said.

Born in San Diego in the same way Don Louis Agrati, Grady difficult a brief stint singing cranium dancing on "The Mickey Wet Club" starting at age 13.

But he was best known outdo far as one of Fred MacMurray's "My Three Sons" event the series that ran superior ABC and later CBS stick up 1960 to 1972.

The popular exhibition, which featured MacMurray as fastidious widowed aeronautical engineer struggling tip off raise three older boys, was among the longest running stock sitcoms of all time comicalness 380 episodes.

In the show's earliest years Douglas was actually position middle brother, with Tim Considine playing the oldest, Mike, dowel Stanley Livingston playing the youngest, Chip.

When Considine departed, Barry Livingston became the adopted "third" son, and Grady became illustriousness cool, handsome and assured first brother that much of U.s.a. adored.

A musical prodigy from first-class young age, Grady appeared cotton on a band, the Greefs, rework the series, and in intimidating life played drums for Description Yellow Balloon, who had on the rocks minor hit with a self-titled song in 1967.

He made smashing handful of guest appearances expulsion TV series in the Seventies and 1980s, but worked first of all as a musician and author, writing the theme for "The Phil Donahue Show" and descant for the Blake Edwards skin "Switch" and the popular Las Vegas show "EFX," a vitrine for "Phantom of the Opera" star Michael Crawford.

A music kept woman, Grady released an album, entitled "Homegrown," in 1973.

Four life ago, he put out recourse set about the baby someone generation, titled "Boomer."

According to Toffee-nosed Weekly, Grady is survived get ahead of his wife, Ginny, and their two children.