i never heard this until a friend just emailed this link to me. i haven't seen it mentioned here (unless i missd it), so i figured if you guys didn't know, you would want to know.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117931030?categoryId=25&cs=1

That is just awful. So sorry to hear it.

oh my goodness, how very sad. I hadn't heard about this anywhere else, thank you for passing on the link Bry.

Love Gem

omg, no, our Richie Addison! R.I.P. :(

I hadn't heard that news either, thanks Bry. How sad. I wonder what made him get to that point? That's really horrible.

i wonder just who did know about this death. after i posted this here, i looked on imdb.com to see if there was any other details. usually, i see they are up on the game when someone dies or something. but not this time. no mention of it anywhere. i would send it to them had i figured out how to.

This is terrible. I didn't know anything about it. He has been on my mind for several weeks.

I wonder why nothing came up on Yahoo or google alerts for the past week???

I think he was very talented - I just watched him in Hocus Pocus with Bette Midler. He was very funny on Saturday Night Live as well as in Moonlighting.

He WAS Richard Addison.

I found a tribute. I hope the link works:

http://www.providencephoenix.com/features/p_and_j/documents/05030762.asp

nice read.
sounds like he wasn't afraid to do new things.

So sad to hear! Despite all the other things he did, he'll always be Richie to me. :(

I was very shocked to read this and I'm sad for his family.


www.moonlighting21.com

RIP Richie.....

So sad... Hope he can rest in peace.. :(

Mul

Very very sad news... i have no words.

Yikes! This is getting stranger and stranger. Most people don't slice their own throat in order to commit suicide, do they? He goes out into a field and supposedly does this. This is just awful.
Was he ill? on meds? depressed? on drugs?
Are they sure it was a suicide?

Does anyone know how old his son was?

There is a CNN posting which pretty much repeats the text of the AP article.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/17/comedian.suicide.ap/index.html

:(

For U.S. people--did anyone see if they mentioned anything about him on "Saturday Night Live" this week?

i heard about this throat slitting on the radio today. doesn't make sense to me. i couldn't do it to myself. just give me a gun.

the way he died is so strange to me. i don't believe it was suicide. i think he was murdered. abolutely no one has to agree with me. but mistakes have been made in other peoples deaths and he will always be a murder victim to me.

this isn't much of an 'in memory of', but here goes.
i met him once. this was before i had seen moonlighting, but i remember being totally impressed to find out that he had been on snl.
i found him to be kind of bashful, sweet, and he had beautiful eyes. really non threatening.
anyway, we talked for about 15 minutes total out of a couple of hours. it was some kind of get together with a lot of people. but he and his manners and eyes did stand out.

Doesn't the throat slashing remind you of being "O.J.'d"? The first thing that popped into my head was a "you can't have her cuz she's mine" kind of feeling. I have never heard of anyone committing suicide with a throat slashing.

Me neither, I think it's strange... I mean, if you want to commit suicide, wouldn't you go for a much easyer way?

Wow that's awful!
This is a real unusual way to commit suicide, I agree with you guys, there must something else going on.

One of my favorite Moonlighting scenes with Charles Rocket was in "Those Lips, Those Lies".

I loved the dance scene with Cybill. It always seemed to me that Charles spoke to Cybill when they were dancing and then arranged her so that they would both look into a monitor (we were supposed to think they were looking at Rita Wilson's character). So he was actually talking about Cybill and not Carla. Just my opinion, by the way. I loved the way Cybill ran her hand ever so slightly down his arm at the end of the dance.

I also liked the dance scene with Bruce and Cybill (It's In His Kiss).:D

Me neither, I think it's strange... I mean, if you want to commit suicide, wouldn't you go for a much easyer way?

"That's exactly what I was thinking."

R.I.P. Ritchie

Did anyone read/hear of anything else concerning his death?

haven't heard a thing.

i have run into several people at different times who knew him well, but i didn't bring it up. however, they all asked me if i had known him and
and were genuinely shocked by what had happened.
a wife of one of the people who knew him, told me in the bathroom, that it had taken what seemed to be a fairly long time to come to 'cause of death', and her husband was taken by surprise. i don't know if it's true that it did take a fairly long time or not, because she was pretty drunk.

They have updated his imdb.com profile to include the news. The profile still does not have a photo.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734236/

Thanks for the info on the imdb update. The imdb boards have some wonderful things to say about him. I had no idea Charles was so multi-talented. All I really knew about him was that he was a wonderful actor, and that he made me laugh. There is recent pic info on the imdb boards. He looked great in August, so very handsome. The "why" question still haunts me. I guess that when someone we know or think we know does something like this, we all want to know the "why" of it. Or is it just me?

The "why" question still haunts me. I guess that when someone we know or think we know does something like this, we all want to know the "why" of it. Or is it just me?

It's not just you.

I think it's natural at a time like this to look at someone else's life and say, "Well what would he do that for? He's got a great life--actor, good family, arts supporter." I think there is no 'good' reason to do a thing like this. However, I guess it's not entirely possible to really know what's going on inside someone else's head. If it was depression that led him there, that's a very individual process that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the apparent surroundings of somebody's life (i.e. money or what type of job they do).

Just such a shame.