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Babylon 5 Actor Jerry Doyle Dies (dailymail.co.uk)
Slashdot reader tiqui writes: Jerry Doyle, best known for playing Security Chief Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5 has passed away in Las Vegas at only 60 years of age. His B5 character was often paired-up with G'Kar (played by Andreas Katsulas who died in 2006 at age 59) and with Jeffrey Sinclair (played by Michael O'Hare who died in 2012, also at age 60) He seems to have lead an interesting life. Cause of death not yet known.
Slashdot reader The Grim Reefer quotes the BBC: Fellow Babylon 5 actor Bruce Boxleitner tweeted that he was "so devastated at the news of the untimely death of my good friend", while astronaut Scott Kelly said the news was "very sad to hear".
Slashdot reader The Grim Reefer quotes the BBC: Fellow Babylon 5 actor Bruce Boxleitner tweeted that he was "so devastated at the news of the untimely death of my good friend", while astronaut Scott Kelly said the news was "very sad to hear".
A sad day.
Garibaldi faked his own death to get to the truth about who hacked the Democrats.
Damn B5 is one of the few series I want to see either remade, or expanded upon. Modern cgi would make those space battles even more epic.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Katsulas, Biggs, Doyle, Conaway, O'Hare.... Good grief, there aren't that many Star Trek TOS cast members who have since died, and that was 25 years prior to B5!
Paranoid much?
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"Welcome home, Mr Garibaldi!!!" The thing that made Babylon 5 stand out - especially given the vast amount of money being thrown at other contemporary sci-fi shows of the era, like Star TreK: Next Generation - was the passion that cast and crew had for the show and the respect they had for each other. Over the course of five seasons, 110 episodes and a small collection of spin-off TV-Movies, we were all incredibly privileged to watch a collection of strangers come together, get to know each other, become friends, then absolutely fall in love with the show that they were making. Babylon 5 might have lacked for a lot of things, but never for the passion of what they were doing. You don't have to be a sci-fi fan to see that. And if, as we'd hope, Andreas and Richard and Michael and Jeff are all there waiting for him, I rather hope that Jerry's response, on hearing G'Kar's welcome, would respond in kind: "Even for a Narn - he's nuts!" We will remember your name - and cherish all that you left us. Rest in peace, Jerry.
Michael O'Hare is saying:
"Hello, old friend."
In honor of Doyle, think I might fire up the series on my Plex server. Saw this news the other day, as it came across the radio business pipeline (he was a somewhat conservative talk show host with a daily show). As a side story, when Doyle was first starting his radio show into syndication, he was making the rounds at the radio biz conventions. I got to sit and talk with Doyle for about an hour at the radio and records talk convention in NY that year. He was trying to pitch his show to all the program directors and network big-wigs (I was then working for a talk talent consulting firm). Of course, all I wanted to talk to Doyle about was Babylon 5. You know what, he indulged me for an hour.. and let me be a fan. He seemed actually excited to talk about Babylon 5 with a guy who was a fan of the show. He was a real gent and very regular guy. Hopefully he's riding a Kawasaki Ninja with Lennier out on the rim of the broken wheel.
Sorry, I never even saw Babylon 1. I mean I think there was something in the bible, but man, it's been a while.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
From the stars we came,
to the stars we return,
from now until the end of time,
we therefore commit this body to the deep.
Don't stop where the ink does.
Jerry Doyle - Died 2016, aged 60
..thank you all, wherever you are.
Michael O'Hare - Died 2012, aged 60
Jeff Conaway - Died 2011, aged 60
Andreas Katsulas - Died 2006, aged 59
Richard Biggs - Died 2004, aged 44
Tim Choate - Died 2004, aged 49
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We've been binging B5 right now...on Season 5, episode 11. B5 is one of the best scifi shows ever. It was never afraid to show war, death, pain...and yet had many themes of hope and good triumphing over evil. It made a stark contrast between spirituality vs religions, and showed that nothing is pure good or evil.
"Survive, and maybe one day, forget how much it can hurt to be human. " - Michael Garibaldi
Did they keep a cursed mummy or radioactive waste on the set or something? I've never heard of so many actors dropping dead after working on one set. And compared to the 5 year olds playing with crayons that make up most of the acting community these days most of them were Picassos.
My favourite show of all time. He was perfect for the role and he played it well. Similar to JMS, can't speak much for his political leanings, but he was a genuine and authentic person from any interviews I've seen of him and snippets of his show.
Wearing pants should always be optional.
Wow, I remember watching that on TV!
If Donald Trump was on Babylon 5, he would have negotiated a much better deal for the Earth. It would have been yuge!
Although I do suspect heavily that Doyle had alcohol-related problems much like his character. Sad.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Somebody is going about and assassinating Babylon 5 actors.
He was an alcoholic, he's even admitted it. Jeff Conaway was a big time crackhead and Andreas Katsulas smoked like a chimney.
I do feel bad about Richard Biggs and Michael O'Hare. They seemed like genuinely good guys who were afflicted by things completely out of their control.
I'm not sure it's widely known, but several years ago while he was visiting Germany for a convention he was mugged and badly beaten to the point where he had to have a metal plate in his skull. Bill Mumy mentioned that on Facebook in his memorium. Until the autopsy results are released it's impossible to know but to have a steel plate attached to your skull he suffered significant head trauma, it may be related to that but I'm sure we'll find out.
Addiction is seldom in control of the addicted.
Where was Wlter Koenig at the time?
I know it would be impossible to prove a telepath committed murder
It's always in their control, but most addicts can't be bothered to take any action to fix things.
I was a smoker for over 20 years and I managed to quit cold turkey out of sheer determination. If I can give up the most insidious and addicting substance in the world, then everyone else has it easy.
I wonder how Claudia Christian is doing?
The curse strikes again!
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Having problems with alcohol is probably why he also did the Garibaldi role so good.
As for Conaway he had severe back pains forcing him on drugs, which plauged him.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Dude, they have been extremely lucky to be in such a great show!
"He seems to have lead an interesting life."
I think the word the author is thinking of and should have written in that sentence is "led", the past tense of "to lead".
In his mind he's hearing "led", but he wrote the word for a metal which is often used to manufacture bullets.
I often see this ignorant use of the word "lead", but there is no hope of never seeing it again.
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
He's with Dodger now
Sex. Drugs, and Unix.
Name those games that gad better graphics than B5. The whole point of the offline rendering of the B5 graphics on Commondore Amigas with Video Toasters was that NOBODY was able to do that in real-time back then.
There are two more points to make:
B5 used CG to do things they never could have afforded to do with models, and the CG was the best on TV at the time. B5 was the pioneer for this and proved it could work. This paved the way for Star Trek to shift to CG.
B5 holds up as well as it does even with its very early CG effects precisely because it was not a show about lasers and 'splosions padded with lots of technobabble. B5 was always about the combination of an over-arching story, sub-stories, and the characters. The show would have worked with black-and-white hand-drawn story boards inserted in place of the CG. The big story line suffered a bit in the last 2 seasons because there were serious doubts about renewals and JMS was dedicated to making sure he could complete the tale for the fans one way of the other, so events got compressed in the next-to-last season, and then the last season got sort of fluffed-up with stuff that probably would have been in a follow-on series.
Never. Just attention to detail.
I was in a hurry and missed it.
I know the difference but was not even thinking of "lead", the material. I was distracted while typing the brief post which when I typed it was timely and, I thought, of interest to the Slashdot community. I was thinking of "lead" (pronounced "leed") as in "to lead" while reading the original article in one window and composing my post in another and keeping an eye on the clock with little time before I needed to tend to something. I'm not a grammar NAZI, but this sort of error usually sticks out at me when I read it, and I would have caught it had I spent an extra moment on it. The error was one of attention rather than ignorance.
I am not offended that you flagged it. We would all benefit from being a little more careful in what we post both on matters of content and style. It was however a minor error on your part to presume ignorance when simple carelessness was a sufficient explaination. Another thing we would all benefit from is not presuming each other to be either ignorant or persons of ill will. Sometime people of goodwill simply disagree, and sometimes people of goodwill simply make a typical human error.
It was Zathras
That George R. R. Martin is the most frightful writer because all of his characters are killed off. But J. Michael Straczynski is far far more terrifying because his writing kills off the actors. :'-(
I read or heard somewhere that Doyle insisted that, if Garibaldi was going to have alcohol problems in the final season, it be shown realistically in all its ugliness.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
for the run of Babylon 5 on German TV channel Tele 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.