PHILADELPHIA (AP) — David Smyrl, the Emmy-winning actor best known for his role as Mr. Handford, the retired firefighter who ran Hooper's Store on "Sesame Street," has died. Smyrl moved to California to work on the sitcom "Benson" in the 1970s, where he earned him a People's Choice Award. From 1990 to 1998, Smyrl played the smiling, singing store-owner on "Sesame Street." Smyrl had won the job by acting out a script where he had returned from fighting a fire, worn out, and talked of retiring and buying a little store, according to a 1997 story in the Record-Journal, a Connecticut newspaper.