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Actor Spencer Milligan, greatest identified for enjoying Rick Marshall in Seventies youngsters’ TV present “Land of the Misplaced,” has died at age 86.
Milligan was born September 10, 1937, in Oak Park, Illinois, and died on April 18, in accordance an obituary posted on the web site of a funeral residence in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, the place he lived.
His stage profession began in Illinois earlier than he moved to California, the place he spent most of his time from the Seventies to the mid-Nineties.
It was throughout this era that he performed his most well-known position, showing in 30 episodes of “Land of the Misplaced” from 1974 to 1975.
His character, Rick Marshall, was a dutiful father to Will Marshall, performed by Wesley Eure, and Holly Marshall, performed by Kathy Coleman, because the household tried to outlive in a misplaced world populated with dinosaurs and different unfamiliar beings.
Milligan went on to make visitor appearances in myriad TV exhibits and flicks of the period, together with “The Bionic Girl,” “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Police Squad.”
He would typically spend summers in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a small metropolis on the Door Peninsula in Lake Michigan.
It was there that he met his spouse Kerry in 1991, and the pair married in 2002.
Milligan’s “Land of the Misplaced” co-stars Eure and Coleman paid tribute to their buddy in a video posted on Fb.
“We have been all greatest pals,” mentioned Eure.
“He was an ideal man,” mentioned Coleman. “He shall be missed.”