Posted on 10/31/2022 1:23:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
Cormac Roth COURTESY OF TIM ROTH
Cormac Roth, a musician and son of British actor Tim Roth, has died after a yearlong battle with Stage 3 germ cell cancer, his family announced Monday. He was 25.
“On Sunday the 16th of October, we lost our beautiful boy Cormac after a courageous battle with cancer,” read a statement. “He died peacefully in the arms of his family who loved and adored him. He fought with incredible bravery for the past year and maintained his wicked wit and humor to the very end.”
Cormac Roth wrote on Instagram in July that he had been diagnosed with the disease in November.
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He died in Los Angeles.
A graduate of Bennington College, Roth was a guitarist, composer and producer who worked on the 2020 film New Order. His family called him “an exceptionally gifted and extraordinary musician whose passion and love for making music stretched back to when his guitar was bigger than he was.”
They added: “The grief comes in waves, as do the tears and laughter, when we think of that beautiful boy across the 25 years and 10 months that we knew him. An irrepressible and joyful and wild and wonderful child. Only recently a man. We love him. We will carry him with us wherever we go.
“In Cormac’s words: ‘Make sure you do the things you love.'”
Survivors include his parents, Tim and Nikki, and his older brother, Hunter.
Tim Roth
He can make you hate his character.
He’s also very funny in comedies....................
The Fountain of Sorrows is always waiting to fill our cups.
Woefully sad and heartbreakng.
Always a tragedy when someone that young passes from illness or accident.
That is horrible, especially since the mortality rate is so low for testicular cancer
That sounds like a horrible death. I cannot imagine my kid going through that. Prayers up for his family.
So sad. Prayers for Tim and family.
Any cancer is insidious. If it was testicular cancer, it is shocking he died from it. Might have metastasized to some vital organ being stage-3. RIP the young man.
Fan of Tim Roth. Sorry to hear.
Sad. RIP.
Hate to hear that. Parents should never have to bury their children.
I’ve always thought Tim Roth was an under appreciated and under used actor with exceptional talent.
What the heck. I have never ever heard of “germ cell cancer.”
Very sad. Tim Roth is a great actor and it sounds like his son was a very talented young musician.
I’ve only seen him in Pulp Fiction...he was good in that.
Sad - wonder if he was jabbed? Supposedly there has been a linkage to cancer...
Rip to the poor guy.
Germ cell cancer. I’m 64 and that’s a new one on me.
He played a rather good bad guy role in “Rob Roy” with Liam Neeson.
I loved him in “Mister Right”
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