Erich Anderson, a veteran working actor who found his breakout role in” Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter” and was a recurring character in shows including” Felicity”,” Bosch” and” Thirtysomething”, has died. He was 67.
Anderson’s family, professional Saxton Trainor, confirmed the media via , Instagram , but declined to publish a statement because she was” to devoid now to create anything”. Otherwise, she shared a declaration from Anderson’s sibling- in- legislation, Michael O’Malley, that said the professional died Friday after a “brutal battle with cancer”.
” Erich was such an incredible people”, Anderson’s director, Chris Carbaugh, told The Times. ” He was a great artist, author, kitchen, spouse, friend and individual being. Erich enjoyed cheering on his favorite San Diego Padres baseball team and was a huge sports enthusiast. He always had such a great soul and was the smartest and funniest person in the room. … Erich may get missed greatly”.
O’Malley, however, wrote that his sibling- in- legislation “was a smart and funny man, a wonderful cook, he wrote three excellent novels. … I’ll lose him but his struggle is over”.
Anderson first found success when — as O’Malley characterized it — “he was killed in a basement” in the” Friday the 13th” sequel. He went on to appear in” Thirtysomething” as Billy Sidel, blind date- turned- husband to Ellyn Warren ( Polly Draper ), and in” Felicity” as Dr. Edward Porter, father of Keri Russell’s title character.
He appeared in one incidents of indicates including” Murder, She Wrote”,” CSI”,” CSI: Miami”,” Star Trek: The Future Generation”,” House”,” Vertebrae” and “NCIS”. All told,  , per his website, he appeared in more than 300 television episodes, 50 theater productions and 20 feature films.
The actor, who was born in 1957 in Sagamihara, Japan, later graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.
He was a prolific writer of episodic television scripts and, according to his website, had a “filing cabinet full of unproduced screenplays”. Anderson published three , novels:” Hallowed Be Thy Name”,” Thy Kingdom Come” and” Rabbit: A Golf Fable”.
Eve Gordon, who played Anderson’s onscreen wife, Barbara Porter, in” Felicity”, posted a touching tribute to her co- star on , Instagram, calling the actor” a magnificent part of the world”.
” I loved him”, she wrote. ” I wish you’d known him, there was no one like him. So funny, so open to whatever the day brought him, and simultaneously so wickedly cynical and joyful.
Gordon described how they would run into each other around Los Angeles and talk for hours even after their characters split up on” Felicity” and no longer see each other on set.
” Ah, look at this Erich, I’m using the past tense”, she wrote. ” My friend, I hope I see you again in dreams and other dimensions. Fly high, my friend”.
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