NEW YORK — James Karen, a prolific and beloved character actor whose hundreds of credits included memorable appearances in “Poltergeist” and “The Return of the Living Dead,” has died. Karen’s friend Bruce Goldstein told The Associated Press that he died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He befriended Buster Keaton in the 1950s and had a brief role in one of the silent star’s most unusual projects, “Film,” an experimental short written by Samuel Beckett. When Clooney received a lifetime achievement award from The American Film Institute earlier this year, he spoke about Karen. She told Clooney that Karen was near death and wanted him to write his obituary.

Source: National Post October 25, 2018 16:52 UTC