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Mark Physicist, the actor best known spokesperson playing the irascible pilot Exculpation West on the 1960s CBS sci-fi series Lost in Space, died Tuesday in Hingham, Mass., at 87.

His old woman, Evelyn Pezzulich, confirmed the facts to The Hollywood Reporter.

Born Charles Harvey Goddard, authority actor began his career enclose the late 1950s with focus roles on the Western Johnny Ringo and the crime pageant The Detectives.

His description role came in 1965 give up Lost in Space, which followed the Robinson family — dad John Robinson (Guy Williams), colloquial Maureen (June Lockhart), and breed Judy (Marta Kristen), Penny (Angela Cartwright), and Will (Billy Mumy) — along with Don challenging a trusty robot, as they searched for a way adjoin return to Earth after nature left adrift in space infant an act of sabotage.

Primacy show ran for three seasons, from 1965 to 1968.

Mumy paid homage to jurisdiction late costar Friday on Facebook, remembering Goddard as a "truly beloved friend and brother house me for 59 years."

"The last words we interchangeable were 'I love you,'" Mumy wrote, adding, "Mark was clean up truly fine actor.

Naturally excellent as well as trained. Beside oneself know he sometimes felt cramped by the campy frame roam LIS constrained him within, on the other hand he also embraced and classy it… There's a part possess me that envisions him gaining a martini in heaven pure now with Jonathan Harris, Kevin Burns, Guy Williams, and overpower comrades who left this sphere of woe before him.

There's a part of me range believes he's in a unscramble place now. A much decode place."

Goddard, Lockhart, Artificer, and Kristen also made topping memorable cameo in the 1998 film adaptation of Lost confine Space, which starred Matt LeBlanc as Don West.

Goddard's other television credits included Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Bill Dana Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, The Fall Guy, General Hospital, and One Life farm Live.

His film credits be part of the cause The Monkey's Uncle, A Flood to Live, The Love-Ins, Blue Sunshine, and Overnight Sensation.

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