"Monk" actor Stanley Kamel found dead

[wnicholas76]

Just saw an article on Yahoo about the death of actor Stanley Kamel, who played Adrian Monk's (Tony Shalhoub) psychiatrist Dr. Charles Kroger. According to Access Hollywood, Kamel died of a heart attack at the age of 65. He will be missed, as he was one of my favorite characters on "Monk". To view the article, here's the URL:

http://omg.yahoo.com/monk-star-stanl...d/news/8081?nc

[Zipzap713]

He was an amazing actor. Sad to hear another actor died. Very terrible.
I wonder how this is going to translate into future Monk episodes. I am sure they'll have a "mourning episode" where Doctor Kroger is killed and Monk is saddened (again)

[bganga]

This was very surprising and sad news to see. In whatever I had seen him in, I thought that he was a good actor.

I am curious to see how this is written into the show also. The Monk character is extremely dependant on Kroger.

[Krandor]

Originally Posted by Zipzap713

He was an amazing actor. Sad to hear another actor died. Very terrible.
I wonder how this is going to translate into future Monk episodes. I am sure they'll have a "mourning episode" where Doctor Kroger is killed and Monk is saddened (again)

and then Monk will have to go through an adjustment period with a new Shrink. Actually they could also stretch it out a bit and cause him to have a lot of problems finding somebody else who will see him.

[Sylin]

Oh man, this sucks. He was a great actor, and has been a staple of TV drama's for almost 40 years. He's also played doctors VERY frequently... I wonder if he had any real-life medical schooling? In any case, it's a loss. I can only imagine the myriad ways that Monk's writers can work around this.

[Galactus]

sad to hear, such a great actor, i've always like his character. he will be missed, i'll tell ya this much the show is gonna take a big hit... this is a sad day for monk-O-phile's

[savage1984]

That's really sad. And he was relatively young. 65.