No Rees-on to Live

Roger Rees, best remembered as the solicitor in Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, has died of brain cancer at the age of 71. Rees had a distinguished career on the stage, earning an Olivier Award and a Tony Award in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He then like quintupled his earnings from his stage career in 17 appearances on Cheers as Robin Colcord, the executive in charge of the bar after Sam sells it, and whose insider trading Sam reports, allowing him to buy the bar back for 85 cents. He also made several appearances as Lord John Marbury, ambassador from the Court of St James’s on The West Wing. Following George Coe, this was the second West Wing-related death this summer.