Chad Everett obit

Chad Everett, star of 1970s TV drama ‘Medical Center,’ dies at 75

 

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Chad Everett, the strikingly handsome actor best known for portraying a thoughtful surgeon in a 1970s medical drama has died. Everett won two Golden Globe nominations for playing Dr. Joe Gannon on Medical Center.

It aired from 1969 through 1976, one of the longest running medical shows on TV, according to Hollywood Reporter, which said Everett also owned 15% of the series.

Everett's career spanned about four decades, and stretched from The Dakotas, a television western from the early sixties, to February of this year, when he appeared in an episode of Castle, a crime drama.

His daughter, Katherine Thorpe, told the AP her father had suffered from lung cancer over the past year and a half.

Everett appeared in a myriad of television shows including Murder She Wrote, Love Boat and Without A Trace, notes the AP. The report adds his unforgettable film role came in Mulholland Drive in which he's "a lothario who engages in a steamy audition with a young ingeneue portrayed by Naomi Watts".

His film credits include Get Yourself a College Girl (1964), Made in Paris (1966) with Ann-Margret, The Singing Nun (1969) with Debbie Reynolds, The Firechasers (1971), The Jigsaw Murders (1989) and Gus Van Sant‘s remake of Psycho (1998).

Everett was selected by the family of John Wayne to be the voice of the animatronic figure of the legendary actor in Disney MGM Studios’ Great Movie Ride in Orlando. He also recorded a couple of albums, including 1971’s All Strung Out, on which he covers “Ain’t No Sunshine.”

Everett was born in South Bend, Ind., and graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit before moving to Los Angeles and becoming a contract player with MGM. He famously battled and beat alcoholism in the 1980s.

He is survived by daughters Katherine and Shannon and six grandchildren. His wife of 45 years, actress Shelby Grant, died of a brain aneurysm in June 2011.

TV and filmography

 

Claudelle Inglish (1961) as Linn Varner

Lawman (1961, TV series) as Cole Herod / Jim Austin

77 Sunset Strip (1962, TV series) as Ross / Anthony Chase / Mark Adams

Rome Adventure (1962) as Young Man

The Chapman Report (1962) as Bob Jensen

The Dakotas (1962–63, TV series) as Deputy Del Stark

Get Yourself a College Girl (1964) as Gary Underwood

Branded (1965, TV series) as Adam Manning / Tad Manning

Combat! (1965, TV series) as Steve Kovac

Made in Paris (1966) as Ted Barclay

The Singing Nun (1966) as Robert Gerarde

Johnny Tiger (1966) as Johnny Tiger

First to Fight (1967) as Sergeant Jack Connell

Return of the Gunfighter (1967) as Lee Sutton

The Last Challenge (1967) as 'Lot' McGuire

The F.B.I. (1968) as Daniel Sayers

The Impossible Years (1968) as Richard Merrick

Medical Center (1969–1976, TV series) as Dr. Joe Gannon

Ironside (1969, TV series) as Larry Van Druten

The Firechasers (1971) as Quentin Barnaby

Give Me My Money (1977)

Centennial (1978–79, TV mini-series) as Major Maxwell Mercy

The French Atlantic Affair (1979, TV mini-series) as Harold Columbine

Hagen (1980, TV Series) as Paul Hagen

The Intruder Within (1981, TV movie) as Jake Nevins

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) as Simon Kurtz

Madame's Place (1982, TV series) as Himself

The Rousters (1983–84, TV series) as Wyatt Earp III

Malibu (1983, TV movie) as Art Bonnell

Fever Pitch (1985) as The Dutchman

Murder, She Wrote (1986–1993, TV series) as Martin Fraser / Clark Blanchard / Lieutenant Redick / Kevin Keats

The Jigsaw Murders (1989) as Sergeant Joe DaVonzo

Thunderboat Row (1989, TV movie) as Ben Bishop

Heroes Stand Alone (1989) as Zack Duncan

McKenna (1994–1995, TV series) as Jack McKenna

Cybill (1995, TV series) as David Whittier Sr.

Star Command (1996, TV movie) as Commander Shane Ridnaur

Touched by an Angel (1997, episode: "Crisis of Faith") as Reverend Daniel Brewer

Diagnosis: Murder (1997, episode: 'Physician, Murder Thyself') as Dr. Clayton Andrews

When Time Expires (1997, TV movie) as Walter Kelly, June's Father

Just Shoot Me (1997, TV series) as Tom Youngerman

Melrose Place (1998, TV series) as Thomas Sterling

Psycho (1998) as Tom Cassidy

Free Fall (1999) as Richard Pierce

Manhattan, AZ (2000, TV series) as Jake Manhattan

Mulholland Drive (2001) as Jimmy Katz

Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002) as Doctor (uncredited)

View from the Top (2003) as Jack Weston (uncredited)

Tiptoes (2003) as Kirk

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (2004) as Jess Moondragon (cameo)

The Mountain (2005) as Toby (pilot)

E-Ring (2006, TV series) as Army Chief of Staff General Long

Cold Case (2006, episode: "Forever Blue") as Jimmy Bruno

Unspoken (2006) as Narrator

Without a Trace (2007, episode: "Skin Deep") as Joseph Pratt

The Pink Conspiracy (2007) as Dr. Redbush

Break (2008) as The Man

Supernatural (2009, episode: "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester") as Old Dean Winchester

Undercovers (2010–2012, TV series) as Professor Joseph Shilling

No Clean Break (2011, TV series) as The Man

Chemistry (2011, TV series) as Victor 'Vic' Strathmore

Castle (2012, TV series) as Jerry Maddox