'Pee-wee Herman' actor Paul Reubens dies at 70

Actor Paul Reubens portraying Pee-wee Herman poses for a portrait while promoting "The Pee-wee Herman Show" live stage play in 2009, in Los Angeles. Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement. – Photo: AP/Danny Moloshok

Paul Reubens, the US comic who became famous in the 1980s for playing eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman, and later infamous for his arrest at an adult theater, has died aged 70.

Reubens passed away Sunday after a six-year battle with cancer which he had not publicly disclosed, according to a statement on the actor's official social media accounts.