SEINFELD & Theater Star Daniel Von Bargen Dies at 64

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Daniel von Bargen, best known for playing George Costanza's boss Mr. Kruger during the final season of NBC's SEINFELD, has pased away at the age of 64.

The site reports that in February 2012, the actor was seriously injured when he shot himself in the temple in an apparent suicide attempt, distraught over his battle with diabetes which caused him to have two toes removed.

Von Bargen portrayed Mr. Kruger on Seinfeld from 1997-1998 and Commandant Edwin Spangler on the TV comedy Malcolm in the Middle from 2000-2001.

His film credits include London Betty, RoboCop 3, Basic Instinct, Broken Arrow, Universal Soldier: The Return, Truman, The Majestic, Philadelphia, A Civil Action, Thinner, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Snow Falling on Cedars, Disney's The Kid, and Super Troopers. He played the maniacal sorcerer Nix in Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions, and the Sheriff in The Postman. He played a terrorist in a season 5 episode of The X-Files.

Von Bargen's distinguished stage career included a long residency with Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He made his Off-Broadway debut in 1981 in Missing Persons. He also appeared in the premiere of Larry Gelbart's Mastergate and other plays at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and made his Broadway debut when the show went to New York. In 1990, he won a Theatre World Award for Outstanding New Performer for his role in Mastergate. [source]

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