Actor William Damage has reportedly handed away on the age of 71 years previous.
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Oscar-winning actor William Damage — whose traditional attractiveness and erudite persona made him some of the recognizable male leads within the Nineteen Eighties — died Sunday, his household mentioned.
Damage, who starred in hit flicks from “The Large Chill’’ to “Broadcast Information’’ and “Kids of a Lesser God,’’ was 71.
The actor suffered from prostate most cancers that unfold to the bone in 2018.
“It's with nice unhappiness that the Damage household mourns the passing of William Damage, beloved father and Oscar profitable actor, on March 13, 2022, one week earlier than his 72nd birthday,’’ the actor’s son William mentioned in an announcement.
“He died peacefully, amongst household, of pure causes. The household requests privateness presently.’’
Within the Nineteen Eighties, the good-looking lanky blond star was nominated three years in a row for an Academy Award for finest actor. He received the coveted trophy in 1985 for his position as a homosexual convict sharing the identical cell as a political prisoner in South America in “Kiss of the Spider Lady.”
He additionally was well-known for his roles in motion pictures comparable to “Physique Warmth” and “Gorky Park.’’
Extra not too long ago, Damage appeared as Marvel Comics character Common Thaddeus Ross in “The Unimaginable Hulk,” “Captain America: Civil Warfare,” “Avengers: Infinity Warfare,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “Black Widow.”
Born in Washington, DC, Damage attended Tufts College and ultimately the Juilliard College. His first massive position was in Ken Russell’s “Altered States.”
Damage lamented to Folks journal in 1985 that he was “a personality actor in a leading-man’s physique.”
He additionally resented the highlight that he was thrust in away from the digicam, telling the New York Occasions in 1989 that he felt his privateness was not being revered.
“It’s not proper that my privateness is invaded to the extent that it's,” Damage mentioned on the time. “I’m a really non-public man, and I've the correct to be. I by no means mentioned that as a result of I used to be an actor you possibly can have my privateness, you possibly can steal my soul. You'll be able to’t.”
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