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.
Mike
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)
Rest in Peace.
RIP
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.
The one arm man?
he kinda looks more like Zathras, don't he?
I bet Jerry Doyle wiil talk about him today on his show.
Thought I recognized the name. He was also the one-armed man from the "Fugitive" movie.
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.
Remarkable how expressive his face was even through all the makeup. What a great character he created. Very sad news.
Sure looks like him!
I think G'Kar was the best character on that show.
"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
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.
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