Posted on 10/12/2026 4:19:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — “Breaking Bad” actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte died Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said.
Cameron County Justice of the Peace Cyndi Hinojosa told The Associated Press she declared Mitte dead at about 1:30 p.m. at what she believed was his home in Brownsville, Texas. She said she was unable to provide a cause, but an autopsy will be performed.
Mitte played Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston’s chemistry teacher-turned-meth dealer Walter White on nearly every episode of the five seasons of the AMC show, which recently ranked as the best of the 21st century in a New York Times poll.
“Drawing from his own experience living with cerebral palsy, Mitte brought authenticity to the role and built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion,” Mitte’s representatives said in a statement announcing his death. The statement said he used “his platform to challenge stereotypes and promote greater representation for people with disabilities.”
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I swear I dont remember him in the movie...
One radio report mentioned suicide but didnt mention details. I guess more will be revealed later .. or not.
Do mean Breaking Bad? It wasn’t a movie.
Not the blue meth Jesse Pinkman made, I hope.
Really...??
The how about Movie Series??
You must be bored! lol...
Reminds me of Tattoo (de plane! de plane!) "from Fantasy Island.
His life was never the same after the show ended.
I don’t know what that is ...? “Movie Series...?”
He was the son!! I remember now!!
...nothing to see here, move along!...
get a life...
What are disability rights?
It’s funny. I just looked this up only a few days ago.
I always assumed he committed suicide because after the show it was all downhill. It was not that.
“Herve Villechaize left a suicide note saying he was despondent over long time health problems. He was suffering from chronic pain, due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position, so he could breathe more easily. He also left an audio recording of the suicide that included his last words”.
“get a life...”
What is your problem? I have no idea what you’re talking about. I was trying to be helpful. Sheesh.
Poor guy. You can only take so much pain.
no play that shit with me... if you wanted to be helpful you would have told me YOUR category for the Breaking Bad Series. Twice you called me out for categorizing the series as a movie. Piss off!!
I had a friend, a girl, (have to say that these days, oh. I mean ‘a woman’ 🙄) who was totally in love with Aaron Paul when he was in Breaking Bad.
Since I never watched Breaking Bad and she talked about him a lot and constantly urged me to see this guy heart throb I must see so I turned it on and was like, ‘meh’ for Aaron Paul. He’s no heartbreaker in my book. She was in her sixties when she was telling me this and to be honest I thought it was the stupidest thing, having a crush on a guy in a tv series, who is so much younger than you and also will never meet you or even hear of you, though she sent him fan mail and fan email and replied to anything he said on Twitter or whatever it was back then.
This friend of mine, whom I did like but we have since parted ways looked pretty much along the lines of Kathy Bates in American Horror Story but with glasses, or Midnight in Paris as Gertrude Stein, with glasses of course. The heavy darked rim ones.
I could never figure it out. Seems by the age of sixty or more you should know better, be over that, get it...
Yes. Poor guy.
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