No Longer Up and Adam 12

Martin Milner, best remembered as the former football star who helps rally the passengers and crew on a crippled Concorde to do the right thing and not try to land the plague-ridden plane in the middle of London in the early MST3K classic SST Death Flight, has died of a heart attack at the age of 84. He also played baby-faced Tod Stiles, who cruised Route 66 with confirmed bachelor Buzz Murdock. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. He put his fake driving experience to use as LAPD’s Pete Malloy on Adam-12. He also put his baby face to use as a fresh Marine learning soldiering from John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima and as Wyatt’s youngest brother James, whose murder sets up the Gunfight at the OK Corral (despite the fact that James was not actually in Tombstone during the real gunfight and died of natural causes at the age of 84). Milner also played Angus MacGyver’s father who died in a car accident when Mac was a wee lad.