Russell Johnson, who played the Professor on 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, died Thursday, according to Facebook posts from co-star Dawn Wells. He was 89.
"My 2 favorite people are now gone," Wells (Mary Ann on the show) wrote on Facebook, also alluding to Bob Denver, who portrayed Gilligan and died in 2005. "The Professor [passed] away this morning. My heart is broken."
Johnson's wife, Constance, told ABC News he died of kidney failure: "He died at home, peaceful, in his sleep at 5:21 a.m. today."
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