RIP Tchéky Karyo -

 

French actor and comedian Cheky Karyo, who starred in about 80 films including "Nikita," "Bad Boys" and "The Patriot," died of cancer on October 31. He was 72. Born Baruh Djaki Karyo in Istanbul, Turkey on October 4, 1953, he became known to the general public in the late 1980s by playing the lead role in "The Bear" (1988), a great success in theaters with nearly nine million admissions, where he played a remorseful plantigrade hunter. He may be best remembered as the French soldier Major Jean Villeneuve in Mel Gibson’s “The Patriot” in 2000. Karyo appeared in two Euro-westerns: “Blueberry: L'expérience secrete” (Renegade) in 2004 as uncle and as Bob Ford in 2017’s French short film “Je n'ai pas tué Jesse James” (I Didn’t Kill Jesse James).