Robert Prosky is dead

Whether "Dead Man Walking," "Mrs. Doubtfire" or "Green Card": The major roles played Robert Prosky not. Yet did the veteran theater with guest appearances in film and TV also a name in Hollywood. Besides the popular actor died shortly before his 78th Birthday.
  Washington - Robert Proskys stage was the theater. 23 Saison he played as a solid ensemble member at the Arena Stage theater in Washington, DC. In the eighties and nineties, his face was well known to a wider audience.
His screen debut was Prosky 1981 in Michael Mann's "The loner". Further engagements in the entertainment cinema of the eighties, followed by, for example, in "Christine" (1983), "The Natural" (1984), "Broadcast News" (1987) and David Mamet's "Things Change" (1988).
Even in the nineties came Prosky in TV and cinema, and played mostly on larger-scale secondary roles, as in "Gremlins II? The return of the little monster" (1990) or "Dead Man Walking" (1995). In the comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire? The Prickly nanny" (1993) gave Prosky a TV producer, the Robin Williams at his empathy in the feminine role helps. Also published in 1993 "Last Action Hero" with Arnold Schwarzenegger Prosky played a nice, old projectionists, the magic cinema tickets distributed.
As is now known, died in the American actor with Polish roots on Monday, five days before his 78th Birthday of complications after a heart operation.