Mark Goddard from ‘Lost in Space’.Photo:Frank Mullen/WireImage
Frank Mullen/WireImage
Mark Goddard, best known for his roles inLost in SpaceandGeneral Hospital, has died. He was 87.
In a statement shared toFacebookpage, Goddard’s wife Evelyn Pezzulich revealed that the actor had been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and died Tuesday in Hingham, Massachusetts while under hospice care.
“I’m so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10th,” she began. “Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday [on July 24], he was hospitalized with pneumonia. We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure.”
“R.I.P. to Mark Goddard,” he wrote. “A truly beloved friend and brother to me for 59 years. I knew this was coming for the past few months. Shortly after a great phone chat he and I had on his 87th birthday in late July, I became aware that I would most likely never see or speak with him again. The last words we exchanged were ‘I love you.'”
PerThe Hollywood Reporter, Goddard recalled seeing himself in his silver lamé spacesuit for the first time in his 2008 memoirTo Space and Back,writing: “I took a deep breath, took a second look at the image of a wrapped-aluminum baked potato and said to myself, ‘How the hell did this happen?'”
Mark Goddard as Maj. Don West in ‘Lost in Space’.cbs/getty
cbs/getty
Other credits of his includeOne Life to Live,The Doctors,The Detectives,Johnny RingoandBlue Detective,according tohis IMDb page.
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