West Wing's Leo McGarry died on Friday

Sad news that John Spencer who played Leo McGarry in the West WIng died yesterday of a heart-attack. He won an emmy playing the White House Chief of Staff in 2002 and his role recently became vice-presidential candidate. Apparently his character had a heart attack in an episode a few weeks ago, McGarry recovered but sadly Spencer didn't.

[Via BBC]

Posted by Paul in Television Entertainment at December 17, 2005 07:20 AM