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Apr. 1st, 2009
Andy Hallett Died aka Lorne from Angel
Apr. 1st, 2009 08:51 pmHe played my favorite character on Angel. At 33 years old, he died of heart disease caused by a tooth infection he had years ago, I never watched Angel in the original run, but in the last few years I'd catch it every weekday morning. They play the episodes in order, one at 6 am and another at 7 am. I get up at 6:30 am and leave at 7:30 am, so I see about 1/2 an hour of each episode. It starts my day.
I know very little about Andy except he had the chops and pipes to pull off playing a green demon who ran a karaoke bar in L.A. A demon who could read your future when you sang. He often was the comic relief, a scaredy cat clown, but when his friends were in danger, he was there hitting a high note as needed. He could be a world weary cynic on minute and crack me up the next with a pithy spot-on comment. I know the words had to be on the page and the director had to do his thing, but Andy pulled this minor character off that page and made him the heart of the show.
In the last episode, the big battle against evil, Angel asks him to do something important, but something he finds despicable. He says, " Hey, Angel, I'll do this last thing for you, for us...but then I'm out, and you won't find me in the alley afterwards. Hell, you won't find me at all. Do me a favor. Don't try."
Now we'll never find him, no future "hey, isn't that the guy who played Lorne" when watching a new tv show or movie. And then the required run to IMDB to prove if we are right or wrong. Funny how a person I never met, most likely never would meet, even if we both lived into the next century, has left a little mark on my heart.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b106789_angel_star_andy_hallett_dies_of_heart.html
I know very little about Andy except he had the chops and pipes to pull off playing a green demon who ran a karaoke bar in L.A. A demon who could read your future when you sang. He often was the comic relief, a scaredy cat clown, but when his friends were in danger, he was there hitting a high note as needed. He could be a world weary cynic on minute and crack me up the next with a pithy spot-on comment. I know the words had to be on the page and the director had to do his thing, but Andy pulled this minor character off that page and made him the heart of the show.
In the last episode, the big battle against evil, Angel asks him to do something important, but something he finds despicable. He says, " Hey, Angel, I'll do this last thing for you, for us...but then I'm out, and you won't find me in the alley afterwards. Hell, you won't find me at all. Do me a favor. Don't try."
Now we'll never find him, no future "hey, isn't that the guy who played Lorne" when watching a new tv show or movie. And then the required run to IMDB to prove if we are right or wrong. Funny how a person I never met, most likely never would meet, even if we both lived into the next century, has left a little mark on my heart.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b106789_angel_star_andy_hallett_dies_of_heart.html
