Jeff Conaway AKA B5 Zack Hospitalized in a Coma

[OmahaStar]

Damn.

I had hoped it would be a long time before I'd have to update this again.

http://isnanchordesk.com/mem/index.html

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Another gone beyond the rim. Farewell, and thank you.

 

[timothy]

zack was one my favorite charcters. R.I.P . will do a B5 rewatch in honor of his memory.

now is the actor who played the doctor dead as well?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Yes, he died a few years ago from an undiagnosed heart condition.

RIP, Zack. You died far too young.

 

[Silvercrest]

zack was one my favorite charcters. R.I.P . will do a B5 rewatch in honor of his memory.

How about if we honor him by buying the "Wizards and Warriors" DVD set?

...or will that dishonor his memory instead?

 

[sbk1234]

Very sad. I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff on several occasions. He was always kind, and seemed genuinely appreciative of the attention from fans.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Damn.

I had hoped it would be a long time before I'd have to update this again.

http://isnanchordesk.com/mem/index.html

That is a very sad but wonderful memorial you have there.

 

[Elemental]

I saw this on the news while at the gym tonight and it took me a moment to place where I knew him from. Very sad news indeed. Rest in peace.

 

[Unicron]

RIP.

 

[Saul]

Sad times. I really liked him in Taxi and B5. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

 

[DeepSpaceWine]

Yeah, it is quite strange how many Babylon 5 actors have died since the show ended, which was just 12 1/2 years ago. I say just because Star Trek's 1st cast casualty was in 1999 and almost everybody is still alive. TNG's been off the air (well, not quite off) for 17 years and it's almost been 25 years since it premiered and everybody's still alive from the main cast. So, here Babylon 5 is and 3 of its main cast are dead. In the Star Trek timeline, the cast would have just made Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. At least Doug Netter is still around, and he was in his 70s when B5 was being made.

And although Older, Franklin's Father Paul Winfield also has passed.

His father was really Darmok in disguise, which in turn was a disguise for a Martin Luther King Jr. impersonator. Franklin & Garibaldi at Babylon. Zathras! The defenses fell.

 

[Turtletrekker]

RIP.

 

[Distorted Humor]

zack was one my favorite charcters. R.I.P . will do a B5 rewatch in honor of his memory.

now is the actor who played the doctor dead as well?

Yep, the actors who played G'Kar (Lung Cancer), the Doctor (Aortic dissection), and now Zach (Drug issues and Sepsis) have all passed away, all being title characters.

Also, the actor who played Dr. Franklin dad died of a heart attack in his 60s, The Pilot doctor died (but he was in bad health at the time of the pilot) and the actor who played Zathras died in a motorcycle accident. Rather depressing, Heck, even TNG has all its main cast and most of there guest stars still alive (except the ones who where old at the time and Merritt Butrick who died young due to AIDS. )

 

[PorthosShadow]

zack was one my favorite charcters. R.I.P . will do a B5 rewatch in honor of his memory.

now is the actor who played the doctor dead as well?

Yep, the actors who played G'Kar (Lung Cancer), the Doctor (Aortic dissection), and now Zach (Drug issues and Sepsis) have all passed away, all being title characters.

Also, the actor who played Dr. Franklin dad died of a heart attack in his 60s, The Pilot doctor died (but he was in bad health at the time of the pilot) and the actor who played Zathras died in a motorcycle accident. Rather depressing, Heck, even TNG has all its main cast and most of there guest stars still alive (except the ones who where old at the time and Merritt Butrick who died young due to AIDS. )

It's kind of funny that when I heard the news that Jeff Conaway died I told my brother it was the Babylon 5 curse. Maybe I wasn't too far off because I can't think of a recent former cast of a popular sci-fi show that has dropped off like flies.

 

[DeepSpaceWine]

It's kind of funny that when I heard the news that Jeff Conaway died I told my brother it was the Babylon 5 curse. Maybe I wasn't too far off because I can't think of a recent former cast of a popular sci-fi show that has dropped off like flies.

Diff'rent Strokes was sort of a case, though it was just the perils of being a child actor. Todd Bridges was almost killed but managed to steer away from that. The sad thing is Mr. Drummond has now outlived 2 of his 3 kids.

There isn't quite any tv show curse comes to mind but 2 things seem to come close. Leo and Me. A 1981 Canadian sitcom where several cast/crew came down with Parkinsons, including Michael J. Fox. There's also the 1956 film The Conquerer, which was filmed downwind from a nuclear test site. Wikipedia notes 25 years after the film 91/220 people who were cast/crew on the film had some kind of cancer. Supposedly, the expected rate in a sample that size would be about 30.

Fun old guy fact: the guy who played Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy movies is still alive. He's well into his 90s. Walter Jameson, errr, R.J. Fletcher, errr, Kevin McCarthy lived to the ripe old age of 96.

And apparently, the Golden Girls were highlanders. In the end, there can be only one. With each one's death, their fame passed on to the next. Thus, Betty White, the final Golden Girl, has achieved a second renaissance and become a hit celebrity at an age most elderly Hollywood actresses have become recluses and have last been seen 10 or 20 years ago. (*sigh* no one's done a mash-up of the Highlander opening & the Golden Girls opening).

 

[T J]

Rest in peace Jeff.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Of the former seaQuest cast members, Royce D. Applegate (2003), Jonathan Brandis (2003), and Roy Scheider (2008) are dead.

 

[Aeon]

Sad news. Rest in peace, Jeff.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Rest in peace, Jeff.

 

[Jan]

It's kind of funny that when I heard the news that Jeff Conaway died I told my brother it was the Babylon 5 curse. Maybe I wasn't too far off because I can't think of a recent former cast of a popular sci-fi show that has dropped off like flies.

Curse? What curse? Who laid a curse on the B5 cast? That's utterly silly.

You know, I used to think that life was terribly unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair? If all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.​

Jan​