Mark Goddard, an actor finest recognised for playing Key Don West in the 1960s television display “Lost in Room,” has died. He was 87.
He died Tuesday in Hingham, Mass., of pulmonary fibrosis, his son John told The New York Moments.
Bill Mumy, who performed Will Robinson on “Lost In Room,” wrote a tribute to his “beloved close friend and brother” for 59 a long time on Facebook. Mumy explained he spoke to Goddard on his birthday in July and recognized he’d possible under no circumstances see or communicate to him once again.
“Mark was a definitely fine actor. The natural way gifted as perfectly as properly trained. I know he occasionally felt constricted by the campy frame that LIS constrained him in, but he also embraced and liked it,” Mumy wrote. “There’s a element of me that envisions him owning a martini in Heaven right now with Jonathan Harris, Kevin Burns, Man Williams and other comrades who remaining this entire world of woe just before him.”
In the demonstrate, which ran from 1965 to 1968 on CBS, Goddard’s character was the pilot of the Jupiter 2 carrying the Robinson relatives on a mission to colonize place. He wrote a memoir in 2008 memoir referred to as “To Space and Back again.”
Goddard was born on July 24, 1936, Charles Harvey Goddard in Lowell, Mass. He left college or university in his junior yr, in 1958, to pursue acting, placing himself as a result of the American Academy of Remarkable Arts by doing work evenings at Woolworths.
When he manufactured it to Hollywood, he appeared on an episode of “The Rifleman” and in a Dick Powell-directed television motion picture “Woman on the Operate,” starring Joan Crawford. He also had roles on “Johnny Ringo,” “The Detectives” and appeared in “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Perry Mason.”
He would go on to make a cameo in the 1998 reboot of “Lost In Area,” in which Matt LeBlanc played the purpose he originated.
Later on in daily life he’d go back to graduate from faculty and get paid a master’s degree in schooling, serving as a special education trainer in Massachusetts for two a long time.
Goddard is survived by his spouse Evelyn Pezzulich and young children.
