John Karlen
John Karlen later had a role in Cagney & Lacey, for which he received an Emmy Award. In that series he played the husband of a detective. Other series that he featured in were Murder, She Wrote, Mad About You and 227. In total, he had around 100 roles in series and films during his long career. John Karlen had been sick for about ten years. Cagney & Lacey was the last series in which he acted in 1996.
We are sad to report the death of #DarkShadows actor John Karlen, who played Willie Loomis, the unforgettable foil to Barnabas Collins. John died on January 22 in hospice care in Burbank, California. He was 86 had suffered a number of health setbacks over the past decade… pic.twitter.com/MR0cgzvINc
— Dark Shadows News (@DarkShadowsNews) January 23, 2020