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Angela Lansbury Dead astatine 96
Following the decease of Angela Lansbury, different prima of the deed series Murder, She Wrote has besides passed away.
Ron Masak, who played Sheriff Mort Metzger connected the '80s and '90s show, died astatine property 86 connected Oct. 20, 9 days aft the actress' decease astatine property 96. The actor passed distant from earthy causes at a infirmary successful Thousand Oaks, Calif., his granddaughter Kaylie Defilippis told the Hollywood Reporter. One of Masak's daughters also announced the quality connected his Facebook page.
"This is Ron's girl and it is with a precise dense and breached bosom that contiguous October 20, 2022 our Father Ron Masak passed astatine the property of 86," she wrote. "He was surrounded by his woman and each six children."
Masak's onscreen acting vocation spanned much than 60 years. In summation to his relation on Murder, She Wrote, which helium played on last 8 of the show's 12 seasons, Masak appeared connected shows specified as Columbo, Webster, Falcon Crest and Bewitched.
For 15 years, the histrion was besides a spokesmodel for Vlasic pickles, voicing an animated, bow-tied stork that sounds a batch similar Groucho Marx, THR said, adding that a Hollywood columnist erstwhile dubbed Masak "The King of Commercials."
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Offscreen, Masak dedicated his clip to philanthropy and to his family. "Ron besides spent galore years playing an integral relation successful assorted foundation events for Wounded Warriors, Child Help, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Susan G. Komen Foundation, The Jerry Lewis Telethon, and galore more," his girl wrote connected Facebook.
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She added, "Most importantly, we volition retrieve him arsenic a husband, a Father, a Papa, a Father successful Law, and a large friend. He has touched truthful galore lives and volition beryllium greatly missed."
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