Tom Troupe, a veteran actor who appeared on stage and screens silver and small, has died on the age of 97 of pure causes in his Beverly Hills residence, in keeping with his publicist, Harlan Boll, and a number of media stories.
A prolific performer who appeared on Broadway and over 75 TV sequence, his profession started within the mid-50s and ended within the late 2010s. Amongst his most well-known roles have been elements within the authentic TV run of Star Trek and My Personal Personal Idaho with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.
Born on July 15, 1928, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., Troupe started performing in native theater productions earlier than transferring to New York Metropolis within the late ’40s. At Herbert Berghof Studio, he studied below and acquired a scholarship from preeminently influential actress and instructor Uta Hagen.
After serving within the Korean Warfare, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star, Troupe made his Broadway debut in 1957 as Peter van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank.
The next yr, he moved to Los Angeles, which jumpstarted his Hollywood profession; he would go on to seem in episodes of Lawman, Dr. Kildare, The Fugitive, Mission: Inconceivable, The Wild Wild West, The F.B.I., The Streets of San Francisco, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, CHiPs, Cagney & Lacey, Cheers, Homicide, She Wrote, Knots Touchdown, Frasier and ER, amongst many others.
On the movie facet, he additionally appeared within the Mark Harmon-starring 1987 comedy Summer season Faculty, 1970’s Clint Eastwood automobile Kelly’s Heroes and the 1968 struggle drama The Satan’s Brigade with William Holden.
For the stage, he appeared in productions of The Lion in Winter, Fathers Day and The Gin Recreation — all of which co-starred his spouse of almost 60 years Carole Cook dinner, a fellow Broadway performer and protégé of Lucille Ball’s who died in 2023. The couple acquired the 2002 Theatre Ovation Award for Profession Achievement, the primary husband and spouse so honored.
Troupe additionally starred in a nationwide tour of Similar Time, Subsequent 12 months reverse Barbara Rush within the late Seventies, in addition to his co-written single-character play The Diary of a Madman.
He’s survived by his son Christopher Troupe, daughter-in-law Becky Coulter, granddaughter Ashley Troupe and several other nieces and nephews.
