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Bob’s brother, filmmaker and author Albert Brooks shared the news on Twitter, writing: “RIP my dear brother Bob Einstein. A great brother, father and husband. A brilliantly funny man. You will be missed forever.”

Bob Einstein’s cause of death has yet to be confirmed, but TMZ reporter he died following a recent cancer diagnosis.

He was much-loved by fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm and appeared in over 20 episodes from 2004 until the most recent series in 2017.

The star also created the comedy character Super Dave Osborne, an optimistic stuntman who is regularly seen injured when his ridiculous stunts go wrong.

He first broke into comedy after coming to the attention of Tom Smothers when he performed in a comedy sketch on local cable TV.

Bob was invited to The Smothers Brothers set, later saying of the experience: “I go over and now I’m sitting and watching rehearsals and my mind is burning and all of a sudden out of nowhere I want this.

“A bee has stung me in the back, and I want this.”