He died of heat-related complications in 2014 while hiking in Manly Beacon in Californias Death Valley. A very popular character, Duffy was the much-loved nurse who kept popping up on the show. Florence Halop played the character, who was very similar to the previous bailiff. Strange, a rodeo performer and stuntman before he became an actor, also played Frankenstein's monster in a series of old horror movies. However the couple split and when she returned in 2003 she was married to Dan Wilder, although that didn't stop her and Charlie falling in love again. She has appeared in Doctors, Not Going Out and Midsomer Murders while also working on stage and editing anthologies of poetry and readings for weddings and funerals. The Bloody Baron, one of the ghosts who haunts Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was played by the celebrated New Zealand actor, who died in 2016. List of deaths | Coronation Street Wiki | Fandom Punky Brewster started off pretty dark for a show that aimed to attract an audience of little kids. The third season finale of Suddenly Susan, airing in May 1999, didn't follow the sitcom's usual pleasant, low-stakes farcical antics. Spriggs, a longtime actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theater, was 78 when she died in 2008. She recently revealed she will be spending this Christmas alone in Ireland. Many regular characters are killed off-screen if the actor or actress portraying them have passed away in real life. In a 2016 episode, A.D. Granger tells his colleagues that he's dying from a form of cancer, possibly related to exposure to Agent Orange during his time carrying out government missions in Southeast Asia. Anybody in need, he would help to any extent possible," his family confirmed in a statement shared on Instagram and Facebook at the time. Producer Robert Maxwell ordered writers to have Gramps die peacefully of old age, offscreen. Larry Hagman played one of the most famous TV characters of all time, but not one of the most beloved: Hagman portrayed a legendary villain. Meanwhile, Emma, who played Hermione Granger, said in a Facebook post that she felt so lucky to have worked and spent time with such a special man and actor.. Richard (Thomas Middleditch) sees a news item online about the investor's sudden death, and later learns from Gregory's associate Monica (Amanda Crew) that he keeled over during a safari while trying to run from a stray hippo that wandered into his tent. See The "Blacklist" Actors Who Have Died So Far In Real Life Young successfully transitioned to more adult projects, includingFlashforward, Scrubs, and Smallville. But actor George Harris actually returned to Casualty 18 years later to play a completely different character called Neville Newton, who was the father of murdered paramedic Fin.