As reported in the Los Angeles Times [1]

LOS ANGELES, CA – Dom DeLuise, the mirthful, moon-faced comic actor who was a regular on Dean Martin’s television variety show in the 1970s and provided frequent comedic support in movies starring Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds, has died. He was 75.

HollywoodChicago.com remembers one of his earliest roles, as a sad sack enlisted man forced to take over in a doomsday scenario in the 1964 nuclear war thriller, “Fail-Safe”

Read the entire obituary here. [2]