American actor Peter Scolari, who starred opposite lifelong friend Tom Hanks in the early 1980s sitcom `Bosom Buddies`, died on Friday at the age of 66. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scolari, an Emmy winner whose credits also included `Newhart` and HBO`s `Girls`, had been living with cancer for the past two years.

A native of New Rochelle, New York, Scolari landed his first major acting role in the short-lived 1980 ABC comedy `Goodtime Girls`. Later that year, he and a then-unknown Hanks starred in `Bosom Buddies`, playing two guys who disguise themselves as women to live in an affordable, all-female apartment building.