Friday, May 10

Gary Graham: Alien Nation and Star Trek: Enterprise actor dies ‘abruptly’ aged 73

Actor Gary Graham, finest recognized for his roles in TV collection Alien Nation and Star Trek: Enterprise, has died “suddenly” on the age of 73, his ex-wife has introduced.

Susan Lavelle shared the information on Facebook, the place she referred to as Graham an “amazing actor and father” to their daughter, Haylee.

She mentioned his spouse Becky Hopkins was by his facet when he died.

“It is with deep profound sadness to say that Gary Graham, my ex-husband, amazing actor and father of our beautiful only child together, Haylee Graham, has passed away today,” Ms Lavelle mentioned.

“We are completely devastated, especially our daughter… this was sudden so please pray for our daughter as she navigates through this thing called grief.”

She mentioned she had first met Graham when he was the co-lead in Nineteen Eighties science-fiction tv collection Alien Nation, by which he portrayed Detective Matthew Sikes.

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Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint in Alien Nation

The collection adopted Detective Sikes as he reluctantly labored with alien ‘newcomer’ – Sam ‘George’ Francisco – performed by Eric Pierpoint, as aliens slowly start to be built-in into human society.

From 2001 to 2005 he appeared as Ambassador Soval in a complete of 12 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, which is a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series.

“Gary was funny, sarcastic sense of humour but kind, fought for what he believed in, a devout Christian and was so proud of his daughter, Haylee,” Ms Lavelle continued.

“Fly high into the heavens Gar! Thank you for our journey and thank you for the gifts you left me in acting, my love of horses and most importantly, our daughter.”

Haylee Graham shared her personal tribute to her father on X, writing: “Thank you everyone for your kind condolences and wonderful stories about my incredible dad and talented actor Gary Graham.

“It’s surreal seeing how far the ripples went, and the way a lot of an impression he had on so many. I miss him a lot.”

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The actor appeared in various different tv collection and movies throughout his five-decade profession, together with 1983 movie All The Right Moves, with Tom Cruise, The Spy Within in 1995, and the American superhero tv collection M.A.N.T.I.S, which ran for one collection in 1994.

He additionally visitor starred on exhibits together with Ally McBeal, Nip/Tuck, Renegades and Work Related.

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