By akademiotoelektronik, 05/11/2022
The Office in mourning, the interpreter of Billy Merchant is dead
Actor Mark York was only 55 years old.
Discovered by fans of The Office from the second season, actor Mark York played in the American sitcom the character of Billy Merchant, handicapped and in a wheelchair, who crossed paths with Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) at the office on the occasion of an awareness-raising meeting on the subject of people with disabilities. The comedian died on the morning of May 19 at Miami Valley Hospital in Ohio, following a brief and unexpected illness (the exact cause of death has not been disclosed). He was only 55 years old.
A sequel to The Office could see the light of day on NBC's new platformA paraplegic since 1988, Mark York had never let his disability define him and he always displayed "an outgoing, uplifting attitude and personality. positive. He always tried to look at what he could accomplish and do, not what he couldn't do," his family wrote in a eulogy published in Variety. He was able to experience many travel opportunities and many dreams for the future."
Before The Office, we could meet him in CSI: Manhattan or in the sitcom Hands off my daughters and he even appeared in the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg.
His Duner Mifflin comrade, Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly) shared her grief on social media: "Mark was a lovely man, a pleasure to work with. Always funny."
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