Confirmed his family comic David Frey, who impressions presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson and other political figures rocket to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, died in Las Vegas, Saturday - David Fry, (AFP). He was 77.
Clark County, "said Detective Mike Murphy Frey died at his home Monday to a heart attack.
The sister of Frey, and Ruth Walsh, of Boynton Beach, Florida, was born comic genius who wrote his own material and began the tradition of neighbors in Brooklyn, New York, where they grew up.
"He has been appointed to the popular movements and ear to their voice," said Walsh, The Associated Press on Saturday. "It could really get people behavior and intonation."
Among other places, made by Frey at colleges and clubs all over the country and on television shows like Ed Sullivan Show "and" The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. "
And arrived at the height of its popularity to the emergence of exaggerated Nixon, with his shoulders hunched and his face tilted down. He also spent several albums Nixon before Nixon resigned as President in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
Died known for his impressions of President Richard Nixon, in Las Vegas, New York Times. He was 77.
Become Frey, who was born David Shapiro, a popular in the years 1960 and 1970, when portrayed Nixon and Lyndon Johnson, Nelson Rockefeller and other politicians in the eyes of the public.
Free Career took off when Nixon began his presidency. Some of the television, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. When Nixon resigned, had gradually disappeared Career from Fry, but he remained in it, recording albums comedy David Frey gave The Great Debate (1980) and Clinton: An Oral History (1998).
A spokesman for the coroner's office to Clark County for The New York Times reported that Frey died of a heart attack Monday.
He survived his sister Ruth Frey and Walsh, who said he got his start by imitating the neighbors while he was living in Brooklyn.
Comics David Shapiro was born in June 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. He issued sets and albums, such as comedy 1969 "I'm the president," the 1971 "Radio Free Nixon" and "Richard Nixon Superstar" in 1973, he published "Richard Nixon: Fantasy," followed by "David provided Frey great debate" in 1980 and " Frey is Nixon "in 1996. Was featured at the end of the day, saying, "Clinton: An Oral History 'in 1998.
Frey has been a popular guest on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." In time, which rose to fame when he was in the Nixon campaign, and then disappeared when Nixon resigned. A spokesman for the Clark County Coroner's that Fry died of heart failure and breathing.
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