Gary Graham, who played Detective Matthew Sikes in the series “Alien Nation,” died Monday at the age of 73.
The American actor suffered a cardiac arrest in a hospital in the city of Spokane (located in the state of Washington, in the northwest of the United States) declared his wife, Becky Graham, to the specialized newspaper Hollywood Reporter.
Born June 6, 1950, in Long Beach, California, Gary Rand Graham began appearing on television in the mid-1970s on shows such as "Eight Is Enough," "Starsky and Hutch" and "Police Woman."
Detective Matthew Sikes
A well-known figure on the American small screen, Gary Graham obtained his biggest role in the series “Alien Nation”, broadcast between 1989 and 1990 on the “Fox” channel, then from 2000 in France on Série Club.
He played Los Angeles detective Matthew Sikes, forced to team up with George Francisco (played by Eric Pierpoint) an alien investigator.
The Californian then landed several supporting roles in the “Star Trek” universe: Tanis, the leader of the Ocampan community in “Star Trek: Voyager” (1995);
Ambassador Soval in “Star Trek: Enterprise” (2001 to 2005);
And finally Ragnar in “Star Trek: Of Gods and Men” (2007) and “Star Trek: Renegades” (from 2015 to 2017).
Alongside Tom Cruise in “Team Spirit”
Gary Graham also had a brief career on the big screen, notably opposite Tom Cruise in the film "Team Spirit" (1983), in which the Mission: Impossible actor played a young American football player. who wants at all costs to escape his daily life in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
“It is with deep sadness that I announce that Gary Graham, my ex-husband, incredible actor and father of our beautiful child, Haylee Graham has passed away,” his ex-wife, actress Susan Lavelle, wrote on Facebook .
“We are completely devastated (…) It was sudden,” she confided.
“Gary was funny, with a sarcastic but kind sense of humor.
He fought for what he believed in and was a devout Christian so proud of his daughter, Haylee,” she also wrote.