Star Trek III The Search For Spock 1984.
(Associated Press) – James Sikking, who starred as a hardened
police lieutenant on the 1980s “Hill Street Blues” on NBC and
the titular character’s kindhearted dad on “Doogie Howser, M.D.”,
has died.
His publicist said Sikking died of complications from dementia
Saturday.
Sikking as as Lt. Howard Hunter.
Shelley Alexis Duvall (July 7, 1949 – July 11, 2024)
(ASSOCIATED PRESS) – "The Shining" star Shelley Duvall has died
at the age of 75.
Duvall, who shot to international fame when she starred as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 1980 adaptation of Stephen
King’s horror novel, died in her sleep of complications from
diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas.
The Waltons
Tom Bower, the longtime character actor whose career took him
from The Waltons to It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, has died.
The Colorado-born actor was perhaps best known for the role of
Marvin, the janitor who helps Bruce Willis’s character John
McClane foil the terrorists at the airport in the 1990 action thriller
Die Hard 2.
He died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles on May 30.
The Hollywood Reporter.
Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024)
Longtime character actor M. Emmet Walsh has died. The
actor, known for his roles in films like Knives Out,
My Best Friend’s Wedding, Blade Runner, The Jerk,
Romeo + Juliet, and more, died of cardiac arrest on
Tuesday, March 19. He was 88.
Walsh’s manager, Sandy Joseph, said he died at Kerbs
Memorial Hospital in St. Albans, Vermont.
Walsh has been a working actor in Hollywood since his first
role in 1969 in Alice’s Restaurant. He racked up over 200
onscreen credits throughout his long career.
The Jerk (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blood Simple (1984)
Robert Swan, the veteran character actor who appeared in key
roles in the notable sports films Hoosiers, Rudy and The Babe,
died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer at his home in
Rolling Prairie, Indiana.
Swan also portrayed a Canadian Mountie in Brian De Palma’s
The Untouchables (1987) and a bloodied deputy in Oliver
Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994) and was other lawmen in
Who’s That Girl (1987) and Mo’ Money (1992).
Robert Swan in Natural Born Killers.
