‘Aliens’ actor Jay Benedict has died after contracting coronavirus.
The 68-year-old actor – who starred within the 1986 sequel to ‘Alien’ as Russ Jorden, the daddy of Rebecca ‘Newt’ Jorden, performed by Carrie Henn – has handed away after struggling issues stemming from a battle with COVID-19, his administration have confirmed.
In a press release, his crew wrote: ”It is with profound sorrow that we should announce Jay’s dying on the 4th of April attributable to issues arising from a COVID-19 an infection.”
Alongside his position in ‘Aliens’, Benedict was additionally identified for showing in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in 2012.
Recalling his time on the set of ‘Aliens’, Benedict had as soon as stated: ”When I turned up on set there was virtually a strike and a riot multi functional and I keep in mind the primary AD telling me, ‘You picked a nasty day to return and do your day’s filming. We’re all strolling out.’ ”
His final film roles got here in 2017, the place he performed Doctor Shurman in ‘Madame’, and a wounded man in ‘Hostile’.
The actor landed his first movie position on the age of 11 within the 1963 Tony Saytor movie ‘La Bande à Bobo’, and went on to safe a component in ‘Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope’ in 1977, however his scenes have been in the end deleted from the movie earlier than launch.
As nicely as English, Benedict labored in French and Spanish productions, showing as Paul Matthiews within the French day-time cleaning soap opera ‘Cap des Pins’ and William Wilbur in ‘Le Grand Charles’, a French mini collection on Charles De Gaulle.
Benedict is survived by his spouse Phoebe Scholfield and their two sons Leopold and Freddie, in addition to a daughter from a earlier relationship.
Together along with his spouse, Benedict ran the Sync or Swim post-production firm, which gives automated dialogue substitute companies to the film and TV trade.
Sync or Swim has labored on tasks together with ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘Call The Midwife’, ‘Dickensian’, and ‘Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands’.
