And both men provided voices in the 2004 film “The Polar Express.” Scolari, for instance, was in the 1996 movie “That Thing You Do!” alongside Mr. It wasn’t the first time they had worked together since “Bosom Buddies.” Mr. Scolari played another columnist, Michael Daly.) Hanks, who, in his Broadway debut, played the lead role, the newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.

In 2013, between the two sports plays, he made another Broadway appearance in the Nora Ephron play “Lucky Guy.” The role garnered particular attention because it reunited him with Mr. The critic Charles Isherwood, in The Times, wrote that he “delivers these in a nicely offhand style that manages to keep the zing without turning each verbal pratfall into a cartoon caption.” Two years later he played the Yankee star Yogi Berra in “Bronx Bombers,” a role that required him to spout Yogi-isms. Scolari ultimately appeared in more than 140 of the show’s 184 episodes, earning three Emmy nominations for best supporting actor in a comedy.

Scolari, who became a regular in the show’s second season, played his producer. Scolari’s best-known role came soon after, when he was cast in “Newhart,” on which Bob Newhart played an innkeeper in Vermont who has a local TV show. Compared to those exemplars of ‘jiggle TV,’ ‘Buddies’ was practically the Algonquin Round Table.” “‘Three’s Company’ was three years old ‘Charlie’s Angels’ was flying high.

“A lot of television was about bosoms in 1980, when ‘Buddies’ began its two-year run,” Susan Stewart wrote in The New York Times in 2007, assessing a DVD release. Hanks’s first prominent assignment, lasted only 37 episodes, but it has gained a sort of kitschy cachet over the years thanks to some witty touches in the scripts and the subsequent careers of the two stars. Scolari had done some stage work but was easing into television when he was cast alongside Tom Hanks in 1980 as one of the two principal characters on “Bosom Buddies,” an ABC comedy about two men who pretend to be women so they can live in a low-cost all-female apartment complex. His management company, Wright Entertainment, said the cause was cancer. Peter Scolari, a familiar face on “Bosom Buddies,” “Newhart,” “Girls” and other television shows and in Broadway, Off Broadway and regional theater productions, died on Friday in Manhattan.

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