Baby Actor Jeffrey Louis Starr
Useless at 61 …
Appeared in ‘Dangerous Information Bears’ Sequels
Revealed
Jeffrey Louis Starr — a former baby actor — has died … TMZ has confirmed with a number of relations.
Starr handed away final month … with a household supply telling us he took his final breath in a hospital in Carbondale, Illinois surrounded by family members. We’re informed he coping with an sickness earlier than he died.
Jeffrey’s brother, Kevin, and sister-in-law, Michele, posted on social media after he handed … remembering Jeffrey as somebody who gave nice hugs, had an enormous coronary heart and appeared to make and have mates at nearly each place he walked into.
Price noting … Kevin additionally talked about that Jeffrey was sick for a number of years and “depression is one of the biggest killers in the world.” Unclear precisely what he means by that.
Baseball followers will acknowledge Starr as catcher Mike Engelberg in two sequels to the hit 1976 flick “The Bad News Bears” — “The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training” and “The Bad News Bears Go to Japan.”
Starr changed Gary Lee Cavagnaro who performed the position within the authentic film which was led by Walter Mathau and Jackie Earle Haley.
Mathau did not return to the collection, however Haley did … and, Starr nonetheless set to work with some big-time names in Tony Curtis and William Devane.
Whereas Starr does not have every other official credit, our sources say he appeared as an additional in a number of initiatives throughout his later years. He additionally turned a deacon at his church in 2010.
Starr married his spouse Linda in 1981 … and, the 2 remained fortunately married for the following 44 years. He is survived by his two sons — Brandon and Jacob — in addition to quite a few grandchildren.
Jeffrey was 61.
RIP
