NEW YORK—Actor John Heard, whose many roles included the father in the Home Alone series and a corrupt detective in The Sopranos, has died. His death was confirmed Saturday by the Santa Clara Medical Examiner’s office in California. TMZ reported that a representative for Heard said he was staying in a hotel in Palo Alto, California, while he recovered from back surgery. Heard played Peter McCallister, the father of Kevin, played by Macaulay Culkin, in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. “I didn’t want to be the Home Alone dad for the rest of my life,” he told Yahoo!

Source: thestar July 22, 2017 16:50 UTC