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Kenneth Mitchell, an actor who appeared in Captain Marvel and a Star Trek series, has died. <\/p>\n
The actor, who was 49, was diagnosed with ALS – also known as motor neurone disease – five and a half years ago.<\/p>\n
His family said in a statement on Instagram that Mitchell was “an inspirational work of art to all the hearts he touched”.<\/p>\n
Mitchell appeared in a variety of TV shows and films, including Captain Marvel, in which he played the titular character’s father, Joseph Danvers.<\/p>\n
Born in Toronto, Canada<\/strong>, Mitchell was married to actress Susan May Pratt and the pair had two children together.<\/p>\n He revealed that he was suffering from ALS in an interview with People magazine in 2020, and said he had been using a powered wheelchair.<\/p>\n In the post on Instagram, his family paid tribute to him as “a hope seeker, daydreamer, dream believer, soccer player, beach walker, bear hugger… and more than anything else, a proud father”.<\/p>\n They added: “Like a massive star exploding with kindness, purity and a particular brand of silly, you were pulled right into his orbit.<\/p>\n “Once captured, Kenny could bathe you in positivity, compassion, thoughtfulness, and hilarity, and make you feel so loved.”<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Mitchell’s family also spoke of how he faced “a series of awful challenges” from ALS for five-and-a-half years, rising above each one with grace and commitment to living a full life.<\/p>\n The most common form of motor neurone disease, ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes specialist nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to stop working properly.<\/p>\n It is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after the famous New York Yankees baseball player who was forced to retire after developing the condition in 1939.<\/p>\n Those with the illness can have difficulty with walking, speaking, swallowing and breathing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Kenneth Mitchell, an actor who appeared in Captain Marvel and a Star Trek series, has died. The actor, who was 49, was diagnosed with ALS – also known as motor neurone disease – five and a half years ago. His family said in a statement on Instagram that Mitchell was “an inspirational work of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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