deplorable news today for buff of Babylon 5 . J. Michael Straczynski announced yesterday thatMichael O’Hare , who led the first season as station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair , has excrete away .
O’Hare was a prospicient - time stage actor , performing in the 1978 Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw ’s Man and Superman and the original stage version of Aaron Sorkin ’s A Few Good Men in the role of Lt . Col . Nathan Jessep ( whom Jack Nicholson would play in the moving picture interlingual rendition ) . He appeared in the 1984 horror film C.H.U.D. , and had invitee persona on Tales from the Darkside , L.A. Law , and Law & Order .
TV audiences will best remember him as Jeffrey Sinclair , the Babylon 5 commandant with a mysterious luck . At the close of the show ’s first season , O’Hare and J. Michael Straczynski came to a mutual understanding that Sinclair would no longer be the show ’s lead character , and O’Hare departed as a serial regular . However , he did return in the 2nd and third season to dispatch Sinclair ’s clock time - cross plot line and fulfill the portion set up for Sinclair in that first season .
O’Hare suffered a heart attack on Sunday , after which he fall into a comatoseness until he happen away Friday afternoon . Our commiseration to O’Hare ’s loved ones . If you ’ve been put off your Babylon 5 rewatch , this might be the weekend to pop out .
What Commander Sinclair moment will you remember most ?
[ sports fan of J. Michael StraczynskiviaCrave Online , hat tip to Erik ]
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