WASHINGTON — Actor and comedian Taylor Negron, 57, has died after a long battle with cancer, his family has announced.
Starting his career as a student and intern of great comedienne Lucille Ball, Negron went from the “pizza guy” in Fast Times at Ridgemont High to more serious roles like the villain in The Last Boys Scout with Bruce Willis.
He once called himself the “alternative everyman,” who could easily slip into roles in which his dramatic looks — wide grin, piercing eyes — seemed to be made for the camera.
“I want to inform you that my cousin Taylor Negron has just passed away,” Chuck Negron said a video released by his cousin Chuck Negron. “His mother, his brother Alex and my brother’s wife Renee were all there with him. May he rest in peace.”
The California native got his first TV role in 1982 playing a love-struck, dancing intern in the soap opera satire, Young Doctors in Love. After Last Boys Scout — his first dramatic role — Negron went on to play in a series of films, including Angels in the Outfield, Punchline, and Stuart Little.
He also made cameo appearances and played recurringt characters in television — including shows like Hill Street Blues, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Ben Stiller Show, Seinfeld, ER, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
In 2008, Negron wrote the play, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Taylor Negron- A Fusion of Story and Song. The show went on to debut at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival and played in the 2009 Best of New York Solo Festival.
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