Current:Home > NewsEddie Driscoll, 'Mad Men' and 'Entourage' actor, dies at 60: Reports -BeyondProfit Compass
Eddie Driscoll, 'Mad Men' and 'Entourage' actor, dies at 60: Reports
PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Center View
Date:2025-04-09 18:52:18
Eddie Driscoll, who acted in "Mad Men," "Entourage" and "Days of Our Lives," has died. He was 60.
The actor died Dec. 15 from a saddle pulmonary embolism after a short battle with stomach cancer, his friend and fellow actor Jimmy Palumbo confirmed this week to People and The Holywood Reporter.
A pulmonary embolism is a sudden blockage in the pulmonary arteries, or the blood vessels that send blood to the lungs, caused by a blood clot that disrupts flow to the lungs, according to Penn Medicine.
"Eddie was a tremendous talent….could do it all…comedy to broadway….and also a huge (karaoke) host at Dimples and the foxfire room," Palumbo wrote in a statement to USA TODAY Tuesday.
Passages 2024:Ben Lanzarone, Sasha Montenegro, Toby Keith and more celebrities we've lost
The actor starred in eight episodes of the NBC and Peacock soap opera "Days of Our Lives" between 2005 and 2014, in various roles including Eddie Diamond, Deep Throat and background characters. He starred in Season 3 of the TNT action series "The Last Ship" as Randall Croft, and he also had roles in of "Sex in the City" Season 3 as "Fendi Man," of "Mad Men" Season 7 as Meehan and a lead detective in "Entourage" Season 8.
His career spanned credited roles between 1988, in an episode of the crime drama "Night Heat," to a background role in "This is Us" Season 5 in 2021.
Dimples Karaoke, a karaoke bar in Burbank, California, where Driscoll used to perform, posted a tribute on Instagram on Dec. 30.
"He was the funniest and most talented person that ever worked at Dimples, despite getting fired 9 times (How dare you! - he would had said and then corrected me to tell me it was more times than 9 😂)" the bar wrote. "He never turned down an opportunity to dress funny and always controversial. He had the best costumes. He will be greatly missed by so many people especially our Dimples family."
veryGood! (7359)
Related
- Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
- Three members of air ambulance crew killed in Oklahoma helicopter crash
- 11-month-old baby boy burned to death from steam of radiator in Brooklyn apartment: NYPD
- Feds look to drastically cut recreational target shooting within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert monument
- Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
- 11-month-old baby boy burned to death from steam of radiator in Brooklyn apartment: NYPD
- Taylor Swift simply being at NFL playoff games has made the sport better. Deal with it.
- Lions host Bucs in divisional round, aiming to win 2 playoff games in season for 1st time since 1957
- Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
- Mega Millions winning numbers for January 19 drawing; jackpot reaches $236 million
Ranking
- New Mexico governor seeks funding to recycle fracking water, expand preschool, treat mental health
- Iran’s foreign minister will visit Pakistan next week after tit-for-tat airstrikes
- Elle King under fire for performing Dolly Parton cover 'hammered': 'Ain't getting your money back'
- San Francisco 49ers WR Deebo Samuel exits win with shoulder injury
- IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
- Nick Dunlap becomes 1st amateur winner on PGA Tour since 1991 with victory at The American Express
- In Pennsylvania’s Senate race, McCormick elevates Israel-Hamas war in bid for Jewish voters
- Albom: Detroit Lions' playoff run becomes center stage for dueling QB revenge tour
Recommendation
Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
Samsung launches S24 phone line with AI, social media features at 'Galaxy Unpacked' event
Feds look to drastically cut recreational target shooting within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert monument
Taliban enforcing restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, says UN report
Federal hiring is about to get the Trump treatment
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says not to assume about what the next election is going to bring
Kelce scores twice and Chiefs beat Bills 27-24 to advance to face Ravens in AFC championship
Second tropical cyclone in 2 months expected to hit northern Australia coast