EDIT: The cause of death has come out. Lung Cancer.
https://deadline.com/2023/12/andre-braugher-cause-of-death-lung-cancer-1235668219/
Such a great actor. He’ll be missed.
Sincerely, Captain Raymond Holt
Pull yourself together, let’s not get all emotional.
Man that dude nailed delivering every single line.
Well, shit.
He was one of my favourite TV “dad” figures in Brooklyn 99.
Captain dad
Find ‘Homicide : Life On The Street.’ He payed a Jesuit educated detective.
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61 is too damn young to go.
This is terrible news… I am in incredible pain
I have never been sadder.
😐
I’m devastated.
Nine-nine 🫡
Nine-nine📣
Ah shit, that sucks. He was my favourite character on B99 :'(
Shit! I’m halfway through watching Brooklyn Nine Nine for the first time. He’s really fun to watch and absolutely nails the role. Rest in peace you badass mofo.
Bone!!! :-(
Damn. Any source on cause of death?
Article says “a brief illness”, which narrows it down.
There is a journalistic shorthand at work here, “brief illness” usually means something discovered too late to treat, RIP Sir.
Yeah, my first thought was cancer, though there are plenty of other possibilities.
I’d agree that cancer is most likely, especially given his relatively young age. Acute issues (like a stroke or appendicitis) wouldn’t really get called an “illness” at all, and most of the other terminal diseases you expect to see first diagnosed in people in their 60’s (like early onset Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, ALS, etc.) don’t typically have much of a mortality rate until people reach their 70’s. Plus, cancer seems the most likely to fly under the radar until relatively late, given how many cases have few or no symptoms until after the tumor gets metastasized or inoperable.
Exceptions exist of course, but cancer seems to make the most sense to me.
If I had to lay odds, I’d say colon cancer. That sneaks up on a lot of men as they age and is notoriously hard to fight once it spreads. Once it does your 5 year survival rate is 13%. If you catch it while localized or regional, your odds of survival aren’t bad.
Heart attack or stroke are usually described by the media as “died suddenly”.
Everything about Homicide: Life on the Street was stellar. Then the producers went on to The Wire.
not to mention starting detective john munch’s career
Wait so they just yoinked a character from a completely different show and shoved him into L&O?
I had to look this up and apparently the character Munch is in:
- Law & Order
- The X-Files
- The Beat
- A Very Brady Sequel
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury
- Arrested Development
- The Wire
- 30 Rock
- Sesame Street
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
One of the big connectors in the “Tommy Westphall” universe
https://www.unsupervisednerds.com/reads-full/2021/1/20/the-tommy-westphall-universe
yea munch was featured in some crossover between homicide and the original law & order, so when homicide got canceled in 99 they offered richard belzer a spot as munch on svu since it was in the works at the time and he was already in universe
Who is Munch in the wire?
Munch is Munch.
Wasnt he also on Mythbusters?
RIP I saw him on Brooklyn Nine-Nine series and I loved him, he was young men, only 61 so sad!
B99 would not be anywhere near as good of a show without him. He was brilliant in his role.
So sad… so unbelievably saddened by this.
Like they said in the article, Homicide Life on the Street is where I remember him from. Lots of good actors and performances in that show, but he was a standout. RIP.
Shout outs to the stubborn Brent from The Mist. A small part, but that’s where I saw Braugher first
Most likely, there will be some improved access to his older roles like on Kojak. Even back then, he was a standout. Stole a lot of scenes he was in.
The Mist is also where I first saw him, he did an excellent job in that role.
