Tragedy has struck the Stargate family.

On Sunday, June 29th, a massive heart attack took the life of actor Don S. Davis, known to Stargate's many fans for his role in Stargate SG1 as General Hammond.  Davis has been forced to leave the show in 2003 due to health conditions that required him to cut his workload.  However, he many several appearances in the later years on the show and on Stargate Atlantis.  He will make his final appearance on the upcoming straight to DVD movie, Stargate: Continuum, which comes out on video July 29th.

Davis had a long career, not only as an actor, but was also a stunt double for Dana Elcar in the show, MacGyver, where he first met Richard Dean Anderson.  According to IMDB.com, he appeared in over 142 different movies, TV shows, and videos, which included Wiseguy, LA Law, Cadence, Look Who's Talking Too, A League of Their Own, Highlander the Series, The X Files, Con Air,  Navy NCIS, The West Wing, and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.  He will also appear later in three projects that have either been completed, or are in post-production:  Woodshop which releases July 1st, Far Cry, which will release on August 1st, and Vipers which is scheduled to release on September 23rd.

I'm sure all of us send our thoughts and prayers to his family and friends.  The family requests that fans make memorial donations to the American Heart Association in lieu of flowers.

 Sources:  Gateworld.net, scifi.com, imdb.com