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Babylon 5's Katsulas Dies
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Posted on 02/15/2006 5:43:54 AM PST by shadowman99

Babylon 5's Katsulas Dies

Andreas Katsulas, the character actor known to SF fans as G'Kar on Babylon 5 and a familiar face from Star Trek and other SF&F TV shows, died Feb. 13 of lung cancer in Los Angeles, his agent, Donna Massetti, confirmed to SCI FI Wire. He was 59.

Katsulas, a longtime resident of Los Angeles, played the Narn ambassador G'Kar for five years in the syndicated cult TV series Babylon 5, starting in 1993. He reprised the role in subsequent Babylon 5 telefilms.

Katsulas was also no stranger to Trek fans, playing Romulan Cmdr. Tomalak in Star Trek: The Next Generation. His last appearance in a Trek series was as a Vissian captain on an episode of Enterprise.

Born in St. Louis, Katsulas held a master's degree in theater from Indiana University, his official Web site said. After performing in plays in St. Louis, New York and Boston, he went on to film roles in such movies as Michael Cimino's The Sicilian, which brought him to Los Angeles, then in Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me and Blake Edward's Sunset.

Katsulas moved to Los Angeles permanently in 1986 and found scores of television and film parts in everything from TV's Alien Nation and Max Headroom to the big screen's The Fugitive, in which he played the infamous one-armed man, and Executive Decision opposite Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal.

Information on memorial services was pending at press time.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: andreaskatsulas; b5; hollywood; katsulas; obituary; scifi
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1 posted on 02/15/2006 5:43:55 AM PST by shadowman99
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Too bad. He was great as J'kar. Loved Babylon 5...

Mike

2 posted on 02/15/2006 5:46:13 AM PST by MichaelP ("Opportunities multiply as they are seized." Sun Tzu)
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To: shadowman99
This guy was great as G'Kar in B5, and made that series better than it already was with his portrayal of that "alien warrior-turned-philosopher" character.


3 posted on 02/15/2006 5:46:49 AM PST by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
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To: shadowman99

From IMDB:

Biography for Andreas Katsulas

Trivia

He does not own a computer.

Graduated from Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana) with an MA, 1969. (Source: Page 22, "The College", Winter 2003, Vol. 26 No. 1. Published by Indiana University Alumni Association.)

(so young -- prayers for the family)

4 posted on 02/15/2006 5:47:58 AM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: shadowman99

Rest in Peace.

5 posted on 02/15/2006 5:48:02 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro
It's good, finally to see what the actor looks like.

RIP

6 posted on 02/15/2006 5:50:54 AM PST by Publius6961
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To: shadowman99

rest in peace, my friend. May g'qwon comfort your soul. you have entertained many.

there'll never be another G'kar, but then again, there will never be another B-5.


7 posted on 02/15/2006 5:51:45 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: wingnutx; Brett66; RightWhale; EsmeraldaA; Paul_Denton; ShakeNJake; N3WBI3; Nachum; discostu; ...
Rest in Peace G'Kar!!!


8 posted on 02/15/2006 5:52:02 AM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: shadowman99

The one arm man?


9 posted on 02/15/2006 5:53:08 AM PST by em2vn
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To: Publius6961; martin_fierro

he kinda looks more like Zathras, don't he?


10 posted on 02/15/2006 5:53:10 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: shadowman99

I bet Jerry Doyle wiil talk about him today on his show.


11 posted on 02/15/2006 5:53:21 AM PST by Marius3188
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To: martin_fierro

Thought I recognized the name. He was also the one-armed man from the "Fugitive" movie.


12 posted on 02/15/2006 5:53:38 AM PST by silent_jonny (I'd rather go hunting with Cheney than driving with Kennedy)
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To: em2vn
Here he is fighting with Harrison Ford near the end of the Fugitive.


13 posted on 02/15/2006 5:56:48 AM PST by silent_jonny (I'd rather go hunting with Cheney than driving with Kennedy)
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To: shadowman99
Two memorable characters................



14 posted on 02/15/2006 6:00:41 AM PST by DoctorMichael (The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: shadowman99

If one takes a historical prespective of Babylon 5, the Narn were the french. when the series started, they were aggressors, hitting the Centaauri colony at Ragesh something-or-other like Napoleon hit the germans and russians. But then as The Centauri, who were the Gernans in WW-II attacked, the NArn regime didn't last too long, merely resistance units were left.

The Minbari (england) and Earth (The US) stood by, watched and tsk-tsked a lot, but they had problems of their own until other events moved the show from a WW-II motif to a cold war scenario with the Shadows representing the communists.

the station was, of course the "league of nations".

Strazinsky was/is a genius in his analogy.


15 posted on 02/15/2006 6:02:36 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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Remarkable how expressive his face was even through all the makeup. What a great character he created. Very sad news.


16 posted on 02/15/2006 6:03:59 AM PST by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: em2vn
The one arm man?

Sure looks like him!

17 posted on 02/15/2006 6:05:54 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: MichaelP

I think G'Kar was the best character on that show.


18 posted on 02/15/2006 6:08:35 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (North Texas Solutions http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: DoctorMichael
"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have cleansed the Universe of the Centauri and carved their bones into little flutes for Narn children. It is a dream I have."
~G'Kar

"Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place: No one here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair .. and not me."
~G'Kar, Mind War

"The universe is driven by the complex interaction between three ingredients: matter, energy, and enlightened self-interest."
~G'Kar, Survivors

19 posted on 02/15/2006 6:10:04 AM PST by DoctorMichael (The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: silent_jonny
He was also the one-armed man from the "Fugitive" movie.

Yes, and I think he was in a movie, if I can remember right, called Next of Kin, with Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson and Michael J Pollard.

20 posted on 02/15/2006 6:12:44 AM PST by Mark17
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