Hollywood legend has died: daughter and fellow actors mourn

A great Hollywood legend has died. His family officially announced this. In the last few years before his death, he suffered from a serious illness.

• The US actor Allan Rich was one of the greatest Hollywood legends .
• Now he is at the age of 94 years died .
• His daughter and colleagues mourn him.

Los Angeles - While music icon Harry Jeske is being mourned in Germany, news of the death is not only shocking Hollywood at the moment : many fans around the world are also shocked by the death of US actor Allan Rich . He recently died of progressive dementia at the age of 94 in a retirement home in New Jersey . His family confirmed this to the American magazines "Variety" and "Hollywood Reporter". His daughter Marian Rich publicly pays her last respects to her father in a Twitter post .

Hollywood legend has died: daughter and colleagues mourn

Rich, who suffered from dementia and ultimately died of this disease, according to hollywoodreporter.com, was best known from the Hollywood crime thriller "Serpico" . In 1973 he played a prosecutor alongside Al Pacino . In Steven Spielberg's strip "Amistad" In 1997, he represented a judge. Three years earlier, he was a lawyer in "revelation " alongside Demi Moore to see. In addition to acting, he also made a career as a gallery owner and stockbroker on Wall Street . His own gallery hung paintings by artists such as Salvador Dali and Joan MiróDanach, the Kennedys were among his customers. Then he celebrated successes again in the mid-1960s as a character actor. Rich did n't just show his talent in films . He also appeared in TV series such as " New York Cops - NYPD Blue" or " Detectives Rockford - Just give us a call ".

As a young actor, the Hollywood star started his career on Broadway in 1934. He then continued it in several plays . But in the 1950s, Rich was banned from working . At that time he appeared as a liberal activist and was ostracized as a communist . Nevertheless, he achieved world fame with his acting . His death news therefore shocked the film scene and of course his fans . Not only his Richs daughter Marian Rich honored his life's work on Twitter.

Hollywood legend has died: daughter and colleagues mourn

"I'm proud of my father's work," his daughter tweeted with a report about her father from usatoday.com.

Proud of my father's work. https://t.co/IJ3qhMRHiY

In addition to his daughter, his famous colleague and US actress Jamie Lee Curtis also spoke up and expressed her grief and sympathy on Twitter. She shared a situation in which she had received special advice from Rich . He later worked as an acting teacher for film greats such as Sharon Stone and René Russo . Curtis was also one of his students and was shocked by his death: “I have just read that Allan Rich has died. I never took acting classes, but I met him for a private lesson once. After we played a scene, he told me that I already knew how to portray other people. And that I should just broaden my horizons with art, music, books and travel. A good tip. Rest in peace, AR "( jbr )

I just read that Allan Rich died. I never took acting classes but once met with him for a private class. After we did a scene he told me I knew how to pretend to be other people and that I just needed to expand my choices, art, music, books, travel. Great advice. RIP AR

Meanwhile, singer Sarah Connor is also in great sadness. She had to say goodbye to a family member *. A TV star from Munich has died after a tragic accident. (* tz.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network)