Star Wars actor Kenneth Colley is dead at 87 after a health battle.
On Monday, June 30, the actor behind Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi died “peacefully with friends at his bedside” in Ashford, Kent, his agent, Julian Owen, said in a statement, per BBC. The actor contracted COVID-19 and pneumonia after he was hospitalized due to an injured arm.
“Ken Colley was one of our finest character actors with a career spanning 60 years,” Owens said.
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