| Jonathan Winters, the rubber-faced comedian whose unscripted flights of fancy inspired a generation of improvisational comics, and who kept television audiences in stitches with Main Street characters like Maude Frickert, a sweet-seeming grandmother with a barbed tongue and a roving eye, died on Thursday. He was 87. |
| A family friend, Joe Petro III, said he died Thursday evening at his home in Montecito, Calif., The Associated Press reported. |