Veteran Actor Mark Blum, ‘Mozart In The Jungle’ Star, Dies Of Coronavirus At 69

Stage and screen actor Mark Blum died on Wednesday in Manhattan due to complications with coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a statement released by the screen actors guild. He was 69.

Blum starred in the movies Desperately Seeking Susan and Crocodile Dundee. More recently, he appeared in the Netflix series You, the HBO series Succession and the Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle.

He was a big player in the Off Broadway scene, often a part of Playwright Horizon’s cast of characters.

The Broadway community also lost playwright Terrence McNally this week to the coronavirus, he was 81.

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