RIP Stuart Margolin

 

American actor, director, writer, composer Stuart Margolin died in Staunton, Virginia on December 12, 2022. He was 82. Margolin was probably best known as ‘Angel’ James Garner’s buddy on TV’s ‘Rockford Files’. He also played opposite Clint Eastwood on “Kelly’s Heroes”. Margolin also proved to be a prolific TV director, helming episodes of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘Touched by an Angel’, ‘The Love Boat’, ‘Magnum, P.I.’, ‘Northern Exposure’, ‘Quantum Leap’ and ‘The Rockford Files’. Born in Davenport, Iowa but raised in Dallas, Texas Margolin was a co-screenwriter on the 1999 Euro-western “Grizzly Falls”.