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Reuters, via BoingBoing, reports:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Denver, the actor who played goofy island castaway Gilligan in the 1960s television show “Gilligan’s Island,” has died of complications from cancer treatments, his agent Mike Eisenstadt said on Tuesday.

Denver, 70, died at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre in North Carolina, Eisenstadt said.

“Gilligan’s Island” aired from 1964 to 1967, and became one of TV’s most enduring comedies in re-runs.