Robert Machray, whose prolific, decades-long profession as a personality actor included appearances on Three’s Firm, Roseanne, Instantly Susan, The Drew Carey Present and, in a four-episode recurring position as Fireplace Marshal Dobbins on Cheers, died Sunday, January 12, at his dwelling in North Hollywood. He was 79.
His dying was introduced on Fb by husband Luigi Camperchioli, who stated Machray suffered from dementia.
Along with his TV profession, Machray often appeared on stage, together with within the 1999 Broadway manufacturing of Amadeus, enjoying the position of Salieri’s Prepare dinner reverse Michael Sheen and David Suchet. Quite a few regional and Off Broadway stage credit embody roles in Ready for Godot (at L.A.’s Mark Taper Discussion board), The Boys Subsequent Door, Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow and Threepenny Opera.
Born Could 4, 1945, in San Diego, Machray made his TV debut within the 1977 NBC TV-movie Panic in Echo Park starring Dorian Harewood. That very same yr he appeared on the sitcom Operation Petticoat, after which turned a gentle TV presence with appearances all through the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. Amongst his newer credit have been visitor roles on Girlfriends, Felony Minds and Kitchen Confidential; his closing credit score was an look on a 2011 episode of Parks and Recreation.
Movie credit embody 1989’s Chopping Class and 2002’s The Grasp of Disguise. Voice roles embody the video video games Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II (2001) and The Darkish Eye (1995).
