Ed Gale, best known for portraying horror icon Chucky in the 1988 horror film Child’s Play, has died at age 61.
His niece, Kayse Gale, confirmed the passing of her ‘fun uncle’ in a heartfelt Facebook post.
‘Ed Gale has taken his final bow and is now headlining in the afterlife,’ she wrote. ‘Ed hitched a ride to California when he was twenty years old, with $41 and a dream, and he never looked back. He lit up the silver screens in cult classic films like Howard the Duck and Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town, earning himself some serious street cred at every con he attended. Which he never stopped bragging about. Ever.’
She continued: ‘Over the course of his career he appeared in over 130 movies, TV shows, and commercials. With this wide ranging body of work, he leaves behind legacy full of questionable lighting and amazing one-liners.’
Kayse went on to reminisce on how his ‘love language was sharing his love of the entertainment industry and the magic of Hollywood with his nieces.’
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Ed Gale, best known for portraying horror icon Chucky in the 1988 horror film Child’s Play, has died at age 61; seen in 2012
‘Ed loved 7 eleven hotdogs with disgusting amounts of ketchup. He enjoyed reminiscing about his glory days DJing at the Plainwell roller rink. He hated Bill Maher for no good reason. He delighted in the slow build up of telling a good story, and cheating at cribbage. He had one hell of a laugh, and he will be missed,’ she concluded. ‘Rest in love you cranky b**tard.’
A source also confirmed to TMZ that the actor passed away in hospice on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Over his career, Ed also starred in cult classics like Howard the Duck and Chopper Chicks in Zombietown.
Ed’s death comes two years after he was investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department for admitting on camera to allegedly sexting with up to 10 minors.
A group calling themselves ‘Creep Catcher Unit’ posed as a 14-year-old boy online and allegedly received lewd texts from the actor, before confronting him on camera at his Hollywood apartment.
At the time, police told DailyMail.com they were investigating, but had not made an arrest and no charges were filed.
In videos filmed by Creep Catcher Unit (CC Unit), Ed confessed there were several minors he had ‘talked to sexually online’, that they were ‘all under 18’ and there were ‘Definitely no more than 10’ of them.
He told the CC Unit frontman, who goes by the alias Ghost, that he planned to have ‘Oral, hand, and possibly anal’ sex with the person he was texting, who he believed was a 14-year-old boy.
In addition to bringing Chucky to life in the original Child’s Play, he reprised role his role as a killer doll in two additional installemts
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