Z’Dead

Robert Z’Dar, the cult movie star with a chin that would impress Guy Smiley and Jay Leno, has died at the age of 64. Best known as Officer Matthew Cordell, the undead mass murdering titular Maniac Cop, upstaging fellow chin enthusiast Bruce Campbell, Z’Dar also played the Angel of Death in the MST3K’ed Soultaker, a cyborg in the MST3K’ed Future War, which was set in the present day and did not involve a war, replaced Rowdy Roddy Piper in the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, crossed swords with the Samurai Cop, and had a brief foray into the mainstream, as prison inmate Face, in Tango & Cash. In all, he appeared in more than 120 films over the last 30 years, and was in production for Samurai Cop 2 when he died.