

A source with knowledge of the circumstances of Austin's death told TMZ foul play is not suspected and that it's believed the onetime child star might have ingested a fatal amount of fentanyl toxicology results are pending.Īustin's grieving family issued a statement calling the Young Artist Award winner "a loving, artistic, brilliant and kind human being," adding that Austin "took great joy and pride in his acting career. Medical examiner's office records indicate Austin's death is being investigated, CNN reported. 11 while staying at a homeless housing facility in Los Angeles. TMZ reported that the actor (real name: Austin Setmajer-Raglin) - who also appeared on shows including "ER," "NCIS," "According to Jim," "Desperate Housewives" and "How I Met Your Mother" - passed on away on Feb. Rest easy."įormer child actor Austin Majors - who scored his breakout role playing Theo Sipowicz, the son of Detective Andy Sipowicz on ABC's "NYPD Blue" beginning in 1999 - is dead at 27. And I hope that together, they will make some sweet sounds. Trying to honor the legacy." He concluded with this message: "I know that soon or maybe already, Brizz will be greeted by Rich and Devin. Trying find redemption in pain and suffering.

If you know what I've been doing, you know I'm trying to bring light into the darkness. I've said it before and I will continue to say it the LFO Story is a tragedy. I am really struggling to process this tragic loss.

I don't have details and it wouldn't be my place to share them if I did. "The first two chapters of the LFO story lost a main character yesterday," Brad wrote, in part, in a lengthy message on Instagram. Brad is now the only surviving member of the group that came to fame with the hit 1999 song "Summer Girls." LFO singer Rich Cronin died in 2010 at 36 following a leukemia battle and singer Devin Lima, who replaced Brian in the late '90s, died in 2018 at 41 from adrenal cancer. Variety confirmed that Brian passed away on March 29 a cause of death was not publicly shared. He will be deeply missed and never forgotten."īrian "Brizz" Gillis - a co-founder and one of the original members of the '90s boy band LFO - is dead at 47, bandmate Brad Fischetti announced on Instagram on March 30. "We mourn his tragic and premature death and remember the kind words, the sense of humor, the smiling face, the musical brilliance of the man who played such an integral role in the ABBA story. The importance of his creative input in the recording studio as well as his rock solid guitar work on stage was immense," the band's members said. A hub in our lives, and it's unbelievable that we now have to live on without you."ĪBBA also shared a statement mourning Lasse - who started playing with them in the '70s - writing, "Lasse was a dear friend, a fun guy and a superb guitarist. Kind, safe, caring and loving … and so much more, that cannot be described in words. "You were an amazing musician and humble as few, but above all you were a wonderful husband, father, brother, uncle and grandfather. Lasse recently fell ill in what turned out to be spread cancer and early on Good Friday he passed away, surrounded by his loved ones," a statement posted on the guitarist's Facebook page in Swedish two days later read. "It is with indescribable sadness that we have to announce that our beloved Lasse has fallen asleep. After that he slowed down on acting yet again-this time to focus on his career in visual arts, working mainly with paper collage.Musician Lasse Wellander - the longtime guitarist for Swedish music stars ABBA - died on April 7 after a short battle with cancer. He'd go on to roles in such shows as The Tony Danza Show, JAG, and the acclaimed 2000s run of Battlestar Galactica.
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Stockwell was perhaps best known for his role as Admiral Al Calavicci on the sci-fi television series Quantum Leap, which ran for five seasons.
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Instead, that led to a string of memorable movie roles in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas, David Lynch's Dune and Blue Velvet, Robert Altman's The Player and Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob-the last netting him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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He got his real estate license in New Mexico, and ran an ad for himself in Variety. Stockwell nearly changed careers altogether in the '80s. When he returned, he found work hard to get. By the late '60s, he once again dropped out of acting for a few years. He eventually found his way back to acting, notably in Sidney Lumet's Long Day's Journey Into Night from 1962, but spent the majority of this stretch of his career in television. After he graduated high school at age 16, Stockwell changed his name and left Hollywood.
