His name may not be familiar to most, but his face is. Ed Lauter, a recognizable veteran actor who recently played a butler in the film 2011 Oscar winner The Artist died Wednesday, October 16. According to the publicist Lauter, he died from mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma is a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Lauter had continued to work on projects acting until a few months before his death, when his health has become too fragile. Lauter has recently directed several films that have yet to be released. He was 74 years old.
With a long angular face and a severe attitude, Lauter performed in a variety of movies and TV shows during his life. Some of his most notable roles included 1974 dramatic comedy The Longest Yard in which he played a prison guard (the nemesis of Burt Reynolds), and the latest film by Alfred Hitchcock, The Family Plot, in which he played a station 'shady petrol attendant.
other projects, it has been a part of include Death Wish 3, a new chance, Born on the fourth of July, the New Centurions, My Blue Heaven, and much more. The side of the TV, Lauter appeared on The Office, ER, Murder, She Wrote and The Rockford Files.
In an interview in 2010 with the Shock Cinema magazine, Lauter made fun of the way he was someone often recognized in public roles.
"But sometimes people do not know my name," he said in the interview. "They'll say, 'Oh, yeah! There's this guy! You were ... you were ... "
Unfortunately, asbestos exposure and mesothelioma can happen to anyone - not just veterans and persons employed in specific '.. top risk occupations "
as a workroom with families affected by mesothelioma on a daily basis, our condolences to his family and those fighting cancer.
You can learn more about Lauter, his acting career and death in this article USA Today now.
