Bozo the Clown Dead at 83

LOS ANGELES (AP) - To the world, he was Bozo, but behind the scenes he was Bozo, Incorporated.

Larry Harmon, who played the iconic clown for 52 years, has died at his Los Angeles home at age 83. His publicist says the cause was congestive heart failure.

Harmon was not the first Bozo the Clown, but he embellished Bozo's distinctive look: the orange-tufted hair, the bulbous nose, the outlandish red- white-and-blue costume. He eventually bought the rights to the character and licensed it to others, particularly dozens of TV stations around the country that hired their own Bozos.

Harmon once joked that you could say he was cloning before anyone else got around to it with DNA.

He said Bozo was a combination of the adult and child in all of us.