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Miguel Ferrer, 61, has died of cancer

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Miguel Ferrer, who had played Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles since 2012 and co-starred with Jill Hennessy on CBS' Crossing Jordan, died today of cancer. He was 61.

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The son of Oscar-winning Cyrano de Bergerac actor Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, and cousin of George Clooney, he was set to reprise his role as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfeld on David Lynch's revival Twin Peaks, which premieres May 21 on Showtime.

A veteran of 40-plus movies and scoreds of TV shows, Ferrer launched his career in the early 1980s with small guest shots on such series as Magnum, P.I., CHiPS and Cagney & Lacey and features including Heartbreaker, The Man Who Wasn't There and Star Trek: III: The Search for Spock. He would go on to focus mostly on TV throughout that decade before landing the Twin Peaks role in 1990.

Ferrer is notable for his early breakout role in Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1987) as Bob Morton, the ambitious and sleazy corporate climber who spearheads the Robocop program to great success, only to be murdered by his envious boss.
The Santa Monica native toplined the short-lived Stephen J. Cannell-creator cop drama Broken Badges in 1991 and also starred in Lynch's 1950s romp On the Air the following year. He appeared in a number of features during the 1990s but continued to star on short-run TV series including Fallen Angels and Al Franken's LateLine.

In 2001, Ferrer landed a role in the NBC drama Crossing Jordan, starring opposite Hennessy's Boston medical examiner. The show was among the top 20 in the year-end ratings for 2001-02 and remained on the air until 2007.

After that series wrapped, Ferrer starred opposite Michelle Ryan in Bionic Woman, which lasted nine episodes, co-starred with Ally Walker and Tisha Campbell-Martin in the LAPD drama The Protector in 2011. But his next role would be his biggest.

In 2012, Ferrer joined the cast of CBS' popular spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles, opposite Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Linda Hunt and others. He came in early on as the assistant director of NCIS and at first was a hard-as-nails unpleasant sort to the team. But during the course of the ensuing seasons, his Owen Granger warmed up to them and became a friend. There has been an ongoing mole-hunt storyline in the current eighth season of NCIS: LA, and Granger was stabbed while in police custody in the most recent episode that aired Sunday.

Ferrer is survived by his wife Lori, sons Lukas and Rafi and his brothers and sisters.
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Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
RIP, he was one of those great character actors. Always loved seeing him pop up on a show.
 
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fallengorn

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Fuuuuuck. It was always cool to see him pop-up unexpectedly.

Twin Peaks S3 is going to be even more bittersweet.

RIP Weather Wizard
 
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HomerSimpson-Man

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He has such an awesome distinctive voice like Keith David. His voice over movie tailer work was always boss, he had such an deep somber air to his voice; when he talks it's like shit about to go down!
 
F0rneus

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Holy shit nooooooooooooo. T_T

Iconic actor. Can't wait to see him as Albert again in Twin Peaks. He was perhaps the best "asshole character" actor ever.
 
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Pai Pai Master

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He played so many small roles where he'd pop up and you'd be like oh man I love that guy! Then he'd be gone pretty quick. I hadn't seen him in much lately though. He was the evil vice president in Iron Man 3.
 
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GCQuinton

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Enjoyed him in Robocop and NCIS: LA when I watched it. Looking forward to him voicing Deathstroke in the Teen Titans movie (just announced today), too. RIP.
 
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