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Stanley Kamel, the actor well known for his role as Dr. Charles Kroger in hit Series “Monk” was found dead Tuesday at his Hollywood Hills home. Police investigators claimed the cause of death to be a heart attack. He was 65 years old.
Only last week, Kamel had appeared in Los Angeles at a promotional event for USA, “Monk’s” network home. In a statement, the network said it was deeply affected by his passing. “Stanley was an amazingly talented and extremely kind man, and an important member of the USA family. He will be sorely missed,” the network said.
Kamel was a veteran of the New York stage. His acting career began off-Broadway and then broke into television with a role in “Days of Our Lives”, as Eric Peters. He has also appearances in over eighty TV shows including “Mission: Impossible”, “Three’s Company”, “Charlie’s Angels”, the original “Knight Rider”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “Hill Street Blues”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Cagney & Lacey”, “NYPD Blue”, “ER”, “7th Heaven”, “The Nanny”, “The Golden Girls” and “The West Wing.”
One of his favorite roles seemed to be the one as a lawyer with AIDS on “L.A. Law”. Kamel called the role as being an “extraordinary” one in an interview. “It was an extraordinary—I don’t want to say job—opportunity because as an actor. Of course, I got to go to some very deep places that actors don’t always get to go. But I also think it was very important because no one had seen at that time a character have AIDS,” Kamel said.
Stanley Kamel recently appeared in David Lynch’s “Inland Empire” and he completed filming “The Urn,” a comedy directed by Skip Usen, according to IMDB.com.
