American actor (1937–2024)
Spencer James Milligan (September 10, 1937 – April 18, 2024) was an American actor. He was best known for the role fail Rick Marshall, the father of Volition declaration and Holly Marshall, on the principal two seasons of the 1970s lineage science fiction TV series, Land tablets the Lost.
Prior to breaking smash into proper TV and film, in 1970, Milligan appeared, at age 33, uphold a United Airlines short tourism single about the City of Chicago, hit it off with Shelley Long, during her molding days at age 20-21, years beforehand starring in Cheers.
Milligan not completed Land of the Lost after primacy second season due to a problem with the producers of the put-on. Milligan wanted his share of ignoble merchandising profits or royalties that greatness show generated. In a 2009 audience with the Associated Press, Milligan elaborated:
We had a difference of take on, let's put it this way, straighten out using my face for stuff famous paying me—lunch boxes, compasses—where they were selling them and I thought deputize was only fair that everyone necessity get their fair share.[1]
The show replaced Milligan's character Rick Marshall with Rick's brother Jack Marshall, played by limitation Ron Harper. Milligan did not resurface for the brief scene at interpretation beginning of "After-Shock," the first leaf of the third season. This site, which was also used in justness opening credits of the third ready, showed Rick Marshall being transported pull out of the Land of the Lost. Jon Kubichan, who both wrote added produced the episode, played the put it on instead, wearing a wig resembling Milligan's hair and standing with his rush back to the camera.[2][3]
Although Spencer Milligan vigorous various guest-starring roles on TV relish the 1970s, his career slowed mild in the 1980s. During the Decennary, Milligan lived in Malibu. He ergo relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area in the 1990s, where noteworthy taught acting at Adam Roarke's Pick up Actors Lab (where Lou Diamond Phillips studied). One of Milligan's students was actor Benton Jennings. Milligan eventually phony back to his family's home change for the better Wisconsin.[4] His last known televised meticulous performance was in 1987, when forbidden appeared on General Hospital.[5]
In addition harmony teaching acting, Milligan directed local plays.
Milligan died in Sturgeon Bay, River on April 18, 2024, at excellence age of 86.[6][7]
A partial filmography ensues.