It has just come over the wires. One day after being hospitalized following a brain injury in his Utah home, actor Gary Coleman has passed away at 42.
Coleman, best remembered for the 80's sitcom, Diff'rent Strokes, suffered the injury when he hit his head on Thursday. Later that same day, he'd slipped into unconsciousness, and was placed on life support. The news of his passing came less than an hour ago.
Coleman had been in the news more for his legal troubles than his acting in recent years, and had appeared in a movie produced by the Mormon church a few years ago. Around that same time, he also appeared in a music video by wrestler-actor-rapper John Cena, "Bad, Bad Man", which, while a parody of another iconic 80's series, The A-Team, enabled Coleman to send up his own wholesome image by playing the villain.
In addition to Strokes, Coleman made a couple of TV-movies for NBC, one of which, 1982's "Kid With the Broken Halo", was spun off into the 1983 cartoon series, The Gary Coleman Show, which followed up "Halo", but lasted only one season.
Rest in peace, Gary.
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