Don Mitchell, co-star in the original Ironside television series, died of natural causes at his Encino, Calif., home on Dec. 8, according to the Los Angeles Times. Mitchell was 70.
In the NBC series, which ran from 1967 to 1975, Mitchell played Mark Sanger, the ex-con-turned-aide and bodyguard to Raymond Burr’s wheelchair-bound titular character, Robert T. Ironside. Mitchell reprised the role of Sanger in the 1993 reunion special, the TV film The Return of Ironside.
Blair Underwood starred in a short-lived revamping of the series, which aired on NBC earlier this year.
Mitchell's other television credits include appearances on CHiPs, Wonder Women, McMillan & Wife, I Dream of Jeannie and the soap opera Capitol. He also starred in the 1973 blaxploitation movie Scream Blacula Scream, also featuring Pam Grier and William Marshall.
Mitchell is survived by two daughters from his second marriage to actress Judy Pace.
–Molly Trinkoff
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