Goodbye, Andreas Katsulas
In researching my political post yesterday, I discovered the actor Andreas Katsulas passed away in February. He had been in some movies (I think his biggest role was the “one-armed man” in Harrison Ford’s The Fugitive), but I knew him as G’Kar on Babylon 5. He and Peter Jurasik (who played Londo) were by far the best actors on the series. Their scenes together were always masterfully performed, and the episodes that revolved around their relationship (like Dust to Dust) were among the best. I was always amazed at how much emotional range Katsulas was able to demonstrate, given all the alien headgear he had to wear as the lizard-like G’Kar. He - like Patrick Stewart on Star Trek - was one of those rare TV actors who could take dialog that would sound corny or flat if it were performed by any other actor, and made it sound great.
JMS, the creator of Babylon 5, wrote a heartfelt post about Katsulas’ passing.
