If you didn't watch Clifford the Big Red Dog, are you even a child of the Millennium? This PBS Kids hit was aired from 2000 to 2003 and starred the late John Ritter as Clifford, before his untimely death in September 2003. The show and Ritter were so well regarded that Ritter was nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program.
Ritter himself was not only known for his role as Clifford. Throughout his career he appeared in more than one hundred films and television shows. Some films you might know him from include It, Problem Child and Problem Child 2, and Bad Santa. However, probably his best-known role was as Jack Tripper on ABC's Three's Company. At the time of his death he was starring in the ABC sitcom, 8 Simple Rules.