James Karen, veteran actor and 'Pathmark Man,' dies at 94
James Karen, an actor with some 200 television and film credits and one particularly memorable job as a supermarket pitchman that led many to call him simply the Pathmark Man, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.
The cause was cardiac arrest caused by respiratory difficulties, the film historian Bruce Goldstein, a longtime friend, said.
A classic character actor, Mr. Karen worked steadily onstage and on the large and small screens for more than a half-century. Over the years his face, if not his name, became familiar.
He played the boss of Jane Fonda’s character in “The China Syndrome” (1979) and a real estate agent in the original “Poltergeist” (1982). He was also known for his role as Frank in “The Return of the Living Dead” in 1985 and its 1988 sequel in 1988, and for “The Pursuit of Happyness” (2006).
At: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/obituaries/james-karen-veteran-actor-and-pathmark-man-dies-at-94.html
James Karen, 1923-2018.
