Addams Family and Star Wars actor Felix Silla dies at 84
Silla passed away on Friday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Felix Silla, the actor who played Addams family member Cousin Itt, has died at 84, reported
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century cast member Gil Gerard confirmed the news on Twitter. “Felix died just a few hours ago and the only good I can draw from his passing is that he didn’t suffer any longer,” he wrote. “I will miss him terribly, especially the time we had at our panels. Just telling me to go ‘f myself.’”
Aunjanue Ellis, Andrene Ward-Hammond Join AMC Series 61st Street
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They join previously announced cast members Courtney B. Vance, Tosin Cole, and Bentley Green. “61st Street,” which has been ordered as a two-season television event series with eight episodes per season, is a courtroom drama that follows Moses Johnson (Cole), a promising, black high school athlete, who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system. Taken by the police as a supposed gang member, he finds himself in the eye of the storm as police and prosecutors seek revenge for the death of an officer during a drug bust gone wrong.