Don Rickles

LOS ANGELES >> Comedian Don Rickles has died at age 90.

Paul Shefrin, his longtime publicist and friend, said Rickles died today of kidney failure at his Los Angeles home.

For more than half a century, “Mr. Warmth” headlined casinos and nightclubs from Las Vegas to Atlantic City. N.J., and appeared often on late-night TV talk shows.

Rickles, largely known as an insult comic, got his start in comedy performing in nightclubs before making his film debut in the 1958 drama Run Silent Run Deep. He went on to star in several more films, and became a regular on Dean Martin’s Celebrity Roasts.