Mike Nussbaum — a longtime character actor — has died attributable to outdated age … TMZ has confirmed.
His daughter, Karen, tells us her father handed away from pure causes in mattress Saturday morning at his Chicago house, together with her proper by his facet. We’re instructed Nussbaum had been in hospice over the previous 12 months — and Karen provides, “It was his time.”
MN was one of many oldest residing actors nonetheless working within the biz in recent times — having just lately carried out in some performs of late … however his on-camera résumé is spectacular too.
He’ll maybe finest be remembered as Light Rosenburg from “Men in Black” or Bob Drimmer in “Fatal Attraction” … and even the principal from “Field of Dreams.” He’d been in lots.
Another notable film credit of his embody … “House of Games,” “Things Change,” “Desperate Hours,” “Losing Isaiah,” “Steal Big Steal Little,” “Dirty Work,” “Osso Bucco,” “Towing,” “Tom of Your Life” and extra. He’d acted in some large TV reveals as properly by way of the years.
Only a style of a number of the sequence he’d been in … “Frasier,” “L.A. Law,” “The Commish,” “The X-Files,” “Early Edition,” “Cupid,” “The Chicago Code,” “The Equalizer,” “Spenser: For Hire,” and many others.
Nussbaum was thought-about a legend within the native theater scene there in Chi-City. He was 99, and only a week in need of reaching age 100.
RIP