Writer and actor Erich Anderson has died on the age of 67.
In an Instagram put up this weekend, Anderson’s spouse, actor Saxon Trainor, confirmed her husband died after a “brutal struggle with cancer.”
Within the put up, which featured a close-up of the “Felicity” actor’s face, Trainor left followers with a number of phrases from her brother-in-law Michael O’Malley, admitting she was “too bereft now to write anything.”
O’Malley’s tribute remarked on his brother’s “long successful career as an actor,” noting how Anderson appeared on the present “Thirtysomething,” performed the daddy of “Felicity’s” titular character, and “was killed in a basement in a Friday the 13th movie,” along with credit on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “dozens of other shows.”
“He was a smart and funny guy, a fantastic cook,” the assertion went on. “He wrote three great novels which you can find on Amazon. I’ll miss him but his ordeal is over.”
In accordance with a biography on Anderson’s web site, he was born in Sagamihara, Japan, in 1957 and first earned a bachelor’s diploma in biochemistry and molecular biology from College of California, Santa Barbara earlier than embarking on appearing within the Nineteen Eighties.
His profession in entrance of the digital camera took off after showing in 1984′s “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter,” his first of 20 characteristic movie credit.
A prolific tv expertise with over 300 episodes to his identify, Anderson’s small-screen credit included appearances on “NCIS,” “7th Heaven,” “ER,” “Melrose Place,” the reboot of “Knight Rider,” “The X-Files” and extra.
Along with reoccurring roles on “Felicity” and “Thirtysomething,” Anderson was additionally a repeat participant on the sequence “Second Chances,” “Bay City Blues” and “NYPD Blue.”
The actor and author revealed his debut novel,“Hallowed Be Thy Name,” in 2012, following up with the sequel “Thy Kingdom Come” in 2014 and later releasing “Rabbit: A Golf Fable” in 2022.
Anderson’s biography additionally credit him as the author of “multiple episodes of television” with “a filing cabinet full of unproduced screenplays.”
