Sci-Fi Actor Death: Michael O'Hare

[DemolitionSquid]

https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&g....0.0...1ac.1j2.

Babylon 5 star Michael O'Hare has died at the age of 60.

The actor, who starred as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the sci-fi series, passed away on Friday, five days after he suffered a heart attack and slipped into a coma.

I never watched Babylon 5 when it was on, and recently viewed the series in its entirety and it was much better than I expected. It was very cheesy but had fantastic acting and moral plot development - particularly Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas as Londo and G'Kar.

While I feel O'Hare's acting was a bit over the top at points, I still enjoyed is performance and contribution to the show and the science fiction genre I love so much. He will be missed.

I will also take this opportunity to mourn the loss of the 4 other recurring actors of the show we have lost:

Richard Biggs (Dr. Steven Franklin) - aortic dissentention; age 44
Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar) - cancer; age 59
Jeff Conaway (Zack Allen) - encephalopathy and pneumonia; age 60
Tim Choate (Zathras) - motorcycle accident; age 49

"We live for the one. We die for the one."

[phazonjunkie]

Oh man! That's practically all of the original cast.

That's how you know you're getting old...when all the artists/entertainers YOU grew up with start dropping like flies. Sigh.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Y24SNfH2Q

[TheEconomist]

As long as William Shatner's still trollololing, I'm good.

[PhanttoM]

Damn, that cast has the worst luck - I didn't even know about Tim Choate's accident.

Babylon 5 was what I considered to be one of the "Big 3" sci-fi universes I enjoyed in my youth. (ST:TNG, Babylon 5 and of course the older Star Wars movies)