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Watch The Royle Family Season 3 Online' title='Watch The Royle Family Season 3 Online' />Our roundup of the best British TV shows youre not watching. Personal information Full name Gary Andrew Speed Date of birth 8 September 1969 Place of birth Mancot, Flintshire, Wales Date of death 27 November 2011 aged 42. USA Network Original Series Royal Pains starring Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty, Brooke DOrsay, Ben Shenkman, and Campbell Scott. Actors who Died During TV Shows. Movies and TVVincent Williams. January 2. 1, 2. 01. Theres a list here on Listverse of performers who died on stage, and there is a growing list of actors who died during the filming of a motion picture Vic Morrow, John Candy, Brandon Lee, etc. This list, however, deals specifically with a TV series in which an actor dies in real life, and whose character also dies and is written out of the show, with the expectation that the show continues on without them. Some shows managed a little while, others came to a screeching halt, others have continued on, mostly depending on the role played. NvBQzQNjv4BqfTCWBQ5pcVqNtVYH0DiOspf4S4hxolY1XIPz7KmxF_Y.PNG' alt='Watch The Royle Family Season 3 Online' title='Watch The Royle Family Season 3 Online' />Obviously the shows listed here are U. S. based TV shows. Im sure there are probably shows in other countries that had actors die and be written out of the show. I came close to adding Ronnie Barker, but the show he was involved with at the time of his death was a compilation of previous comedy skits with the other Ronnie Corbett, and technically played himself most of the time. I had a hard enough time finding some of these in the list youre welcome to add your own. Ive arranged these in the order of star power the closer the actor was to the center of the scene, the higher up the list. Richard Biggs. Strong Medicine Lifetime, 2. Biggs was a regular supporting actor on the show. He died from complications following an aortic dissection on May 2. In the show, his character was killed in an unseen traffic accident. The show continued until 2. Jon Erik Hexum. Cover Up CBS 1. Hexum played Mac Harper, a former Marine hired by Dani Reynolds Jennifer ONeill to locate her husband. Hexum appeared in only seven episodes. Road Rules Season 1 Episode 1 more. On October 1. 2, 1. Hexum took a blank loaded. Magnum and pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger. Despite being a prop gun with blanks, the wadding was fired with enough force to send skull fragments into Hexums brain, causing massive hemorrhaging. He was taken off life support six days later. Australian actor Antony Hamilton was brought in to play another member of Harpers team, stepping in while Harper was away on assignment. Later, it was revealed that Hexums Harper character was killed in action. The show was cancelled after the one season. Diana Hyland. Eight Is Enough ABC, 1. Hyland played Joan Bradford, wife to Tom Bradford Dick Van Patten and mother to eight children. Diana played in only four episodes of the first season before falling ill. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and died March 2. She was written out of the remainder of the first season, and at the beginning of Season 2, Tom was a widower who later remarried. Interesting note Hyland was dating John Travolta at the time of her illness, and died in his arms. Christopher Allport. Mad Men AMC, 2. 00. Allport played a brief supporting role as Andrew Campbell, father of ad man Pete Campbell Vincent Kartheiser in Season 1 of this series surrounding a New York ad agency in the early 1. Allport, an avid hiker, was one of three people killed January 2. Mountain High, a ski resort near Wrightwood, in the San Gabriel Mountains east of Los Angeles. Near the beginning of Season 2, while the agency looked to woo American Airlines as a larger client, a plane crash involving the airline proves a public relations nightmare. Pete suggests to American Airlines that the agency has someone who knows the airlines pain, revealing that his father was one of those killed in the plane crash. Michael Conrad. Hill Street Blues NBC, 1. Qai. 9sf. Ka. IConrad played officer Phil Esterhaus, who ended each roll call on the show with Lets be careful out there. The part earned Conrad two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series 1. In November 1. 98. Conrad died of urethral cancer. Heaven Can Wait Full Movie. In the episode Grace Under Pressure, the character Phil Esterhaus dies while making love to Grace Gardner a recurring character played by Barbara Babcock, leaving the precinct in shock. Jim Davis. Dallas CBS, 1. Davis played Jock Ewing, patriarch of the Ewing oil family, and father to J. R. Davis appeared in 7. Seasons 1 3, working as much as he could despite his diagnosis with multiple myeloma and the subsequent chemotherapy. As the third season progressed, his condition required him to be seated and at times wearing a wig. A storyline had Jock separating from his wife, Miss Ellie Barbara Bel Geddes, then reuniting for an extended second honeymoon at the end of the third season which kept Davis off screen. Davis died April 2. Season 3 was still on the air. Rather that write him out of the show immediately, Jock Ewing was kept in the story for another 1. South America exploring for oil. Jock Ewing died in a helicopter crash in the episode The Search, which aired January 8, 1. Nicholas Colasanto. Watch The Spring Fairy Online Full Movie more. Cheers NBC, 1. 98. Nicholas played Ernie Coach Pantusso, a regular congenial character on Cheers for the first three seasons. Colasanto died of a heart ailment February 1. Cheerio, Cheers. The hugely successful show continued on for another eight seasons 1. Rather than write Coach directly out of the show, Coachs character was continually referred to over the course of the show. His absence was attributed to some excuse, either he was away visiting or otherwise doing something away from the bar. Colasanto appeared in the credits all the way to the end of Season 3. He wasnt replaced directly, but Woody Harrelson joined the show to fill the void. Colasanto had a picture of Geronimo in his dressing room which had special meaning to him the cast and crew displayed the picture on the main set in his honor. At the end of the final episode, Sam Ted Danson silently pauses to straighten the picture on his way out of the bar. Redd Foxx. The Royal Family CBS, 1. Most notable for his role in Sanford and Son, Redd was looking for a comeback with this new series. The show centered around Alphonso Royal Foxx and his wife Victoria Della Reese, a couple hoping for a quiet retirement until interrupted by their daughter Elizabeth and her three children. During rehearsals on set, Foxx collapsed. It was first thought it was part of the characters act, but Foxxs heart attack was real, and fatal. By then, seven episodes had been completed with favorable ratings. The immediate thought was to cancel the show, but it was decided to continue with Als character written out and cast changes to keep up the show. After 1. 5 episodes and declining ratings, The Royal Family was cancelled. Phil Hartman. News. Radio NBC, 1. 99. Hartman played Bill Mc. Neal, a news co anchor at TV station WNYX. Hartman was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, on the morning of May 2. At the beginning of the fifth season, the character Bill was revealed to have had a heart attack. As a dying wish, Bill left notes for each of the other characters to be read on his passing. At the time of his death, Phil Hartman made guest appearances on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Vickis ex lover and The Simpsons. Hartman voiced various characters over 5. Troy Mc. Clure a washed up actor. Mc. Clure appears for the last time in the episode Bart the Mother, which aired four months after Hartmans death the episode is dedicated to him. John Ritter. 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter ABC, 2. Ritter played the main character, Paul Hennessy, a sports writer prompted to play a more active role as dad to his two teenage daughters and son. During rehearsal for the fourth episode of the second season, Ritter complained of discomfort, and he was taken to the hospital. He died September 1. In the show, Paul collapses in a grocery store, supposedly of a heart ailment. A one hour episode titled Goodbye aired November 4, 2. Ritter. The show continued, with the plot working around the death of Paul. Despite moving to different timeslots and the introduction of new actors Suzanne Pleshette, James Garner and David Spade, the ratings continued to slide, and eventually the show was cancelled after the third season in May, 2.