# ANOTHER Performer Dead in House Fire! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248 "2002-10-14T16:24:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/1 "2002-10-14T16:24:23Z")
Two in one week; this is getting creepy: LOS ANGELES (AP) - **Dennis Patrick** , a veteran actor who played the Ewing family’s banker on _Dallas_, has died after a fire at his home. He was 84. The actor, whose career spanned five decades, was found Sunday in the Hollywood Hills home, said Michael Riddle, a supervising investigator with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. Many of Patrick’s roles leaned toward the macabre, including appearances on the _The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour_ and the campy '60s soap opera _Dark Shadows_. His more recent appearances include the 1988 TV miniseries _War and Remembrance_ and the 1994 movie _The Air Up There_. He was the second performer to die in a house fire in the city in less than a week. Actress **Teresa Graves** , who starred as a sassy undercover cop in the 1970s television police drama _Get Christie Love!_, died Thursday in a fire at her home. She was 54. ---
**Author:** ![diddlysquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@diddlysquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diddlysquat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/2 "2002-10-14T16:31:01Z")
Attention Hollywood Superstars: Replace those smoke alarm batteries now! ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/3 "2002-10-14T17:59:45Z")
Only one solution: Los Angeles must immediately pass an ordinance barring performers from residing in, or entering into, houses. Sua ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/4 "2002-10-14T18:49:39Z")
Don’t flame me for this but… another career up in smoke? that Teresa Graves was hot! Patrick’s house really burned him up. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/5 "2002-10-14T18:59:40Z")
Lieu, I suggest you hasten yourself to your office restroom for another feces-related thread . . . ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/6 "2002-10-14T19:13:39Z")
Aww Eve, to know me is to… well… to know me. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/7 "2002-10-14T20:18:26Z")
This thread reminded me of poor Jack Cassidy, who was burnt to death in a fire back in 1976. I remember the news of it frightening me badly, since my dad back then smoked in bed and I was afraid it might happen to him, too. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-performer-dead-in-house-fire/132248/8 "2002-10-14T20:27:37Z")
[Linda Darnell](http://silverscreensirens.com/galleries/linda1.htm) and [Gwili Andre](http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~hsfischm/pic12page.html), too, come to mind.