After Marty Ingels and his wife, actress Shirley Jones, went through a painful, year-long separation, they arranged to meet for a reconciliation session at their therapist's office.

Mr. Ingels, a compulsive comic who had a brief TV and film career but never entirely left the stage, entered wearing a big hat and playing a trombone.

"Well, looks like you haven't changed a bit, Marty," the therapist said.

The couple got back together and remained happily married.

Mr. Ingels, a raspy-voiced, bug-eyed comic actor who co-starred with John Astin in the early 1960s sitcom "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster," died Oct. 21 at a hospital in Tarzana, Calif. He was 79.

Marty Ingels with his wife, Shirley Jones, after she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986. (Tweed/AP)

He had a stroke, said Jones's agent, Milton Suchin.

Mr. Ingels also appeared on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Addams Family" and other sitcoms. He played comic roles in a number of films, including "The Horizontal Lieutenant" (1962), "Wild and Wonderful" (1964), "A Guide for the Married Man" (1967) and "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" (1969).

In his later years, he was the cartoon voice of Pac-Man and did voice-overs on many other cartoons and commercials.