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Actor Miguel Ferrer dies at 61


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http://deadline.com/2017/01/miguel-ferrer-dead-ncis-los-angeles-crossing-jordan-1201890002/


Miguel Ferrer, who had played Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles since 2012 and co-starred with Jill Hennessy on CBS’ Crossing Jordan, died today of cancer. He was 61.


The son of Oscar-winning Cyrano de Bergerac actor Jose Ferrer, he also was to reprise his role as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfeld on David Lynch’s revival Twin Peaks on Showtime.

A veteran of 40-plus movies and scoreds of TV shows, Ferrer launched his career in the early 1980s with small guest shots on such series as Magnum, P.I., CHiPS and Cagney & Lacey and features including Heartbreaker, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Star Trek: III: The Search for Spock. He would go on to focus mostly on TV throughout that decade before landing the Twin Peaks role in 1990.

The Santa Monica native toplined the short-lived Stephen J. Cannell-creator cop drama Broken Badges in 1991 and also starred in Lynch’s 1950s romp On the Air the following year. He appeared in a number of features during the 1990s but continued to star on short-run TV series including Fallen Angels and Al Franken’s LateLine.

In 2001, Ferrer landed a role in the NBC drama Crossing Jordan, starring opposite Hennessy’s Boston medical examiner. The show was among the top 20 in the year-end ratings for 2001-02 and remained on the air until 2007.

After that series wrapped, Ferrer starred opposite Michelle Ryan in Bionic Woman, which lasted nine episodes, co-starred with Ally Walker and Tisha Campbell-Martin in the LAPD drama The Protector in 2011. But his next role would be his biggest.

In 2012, Ferrer joined the cast of CBS’ popular spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles, opposite Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J, Linda Hunt and others. He came in early on as the assistant director of NCIS and at first was a hard-as-nails unpleasant sort to the team. But during the course of the ensuing seasons, his Owen Granger warmed up to them and became a friend. There has been an ongoing mole-hunt storyline in the current eighth season of NCIS: LA, and Granger was stabbed while in police custody in the most recent episode that aired Sunday.

Ferrer is survived by his wife Lori, sons Lukas and Rafi and his brothers and sisters.

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RIP 

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Very sad. I didn't know he was sick.

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RIP Miguel, so sad.

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Did not even understand the words at first.

Godspeed, Miguel.

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While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact of the matter is I'm merely a naysayer and hatchet man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and would gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Ghandi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge,aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. I love you


Thank you Albert.

Thank you Miguel.

RIP

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While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact of the matter is I'm merely a naysayer and hatchet man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and would gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Ghandi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge,aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. I love you

Thank you Albert.

Thank you Miguel.

RIP



That was one of the funniest, most unexpected and greatest line from television as far as I'm concerned.

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Albert was one of my favorite characters.

Short and punchy. Full of wit. Made a total impact.

A great performance.

RIP

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My favourite scene from him in Twin Peaks was when Big Ed was telling the story of how he shot Nadine in the eye and he was trying to keep from laughing. What a great character, so funny.



give me a stage where this bull here can rage and though I can fight I'd much rather recite.

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That's my favourite, two days before his death i was thinking about that scene and i watched it  Albert is my favourite

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I like that one, too. Especially since he's just kind of standing there listening and drinking wretched coffee, then the cumulative effect just hits him and he starts laughing.

(Relative to a reaction he has to something else later, it's kind of like, "No, the first time is the farce.")


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RIP Miguel, remember seeing him on other things before as well. Albert ends up being so loveable after he starts not being so mean to especially harry and Andy. Hope Miguel is in the new twin peaks

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