One of many M*A*S*H icons died final Monday of problems from prostate most cancers in hospice care in Chatsworth, California. He performed the position of Sergeant Honda McKee within the collection.
Tommy McLoughlin, the director of the sixth installment of the “Friday the thirteenth” collection, confirmed the dying of Rydbeck for The Hollywood Reporter. Additionally on Instagram shared the dignity the late actor.
“We’ve got misplaced not solely a really humorous comic and actor … however one of many kindest human beings I’ve ever recognized,” McLoughlin, 74, wrote.
Whitney Rydbeck was born in Los Angeles and studied theater at Pasadena Metropolis School and Cal State Fullerton. After his research, he grew to become a mime and commenced his appearing profession in 1970, when he appeared in an episode of the TV collection The Babysitter and the Professor. Within the following years, he landed roles in widespread collection resembling The Brady Bunch, M*A*S*H and Monster Squad and appeared in movies resembling Love at First Chew, Rocky II and Steven Spielberg’s 1941.
Rydbeck additionally grew to become well-known for his position as Roy, a paintball soldier within the 1986 movie Friday the thirteenth: Jason Lives. He was often known as a crash check dummy named Larry in a 1980 PSA marketing campaign.
Rydbeck joked that he feared that in the future the newspaper would carry the headline “Actor who performed Crash Dummy dies as a result of he did not buckle up”. “I all the time buckle up, I will inform you that,” added the actor.
Through the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, he appeared in collection resembling seventh Heaven, Star Trek: The Subsequent Era and Homicide, She Wrote, and within the movies Oliver & Firm and A Very Brady Sequel.
Rydbeck retired from appearing after the 2007 brief movie The Oates’ Valor.
Most lately, he was reportedly a drama trainer at Pasadena Metropolis School.
