Michael Keenan, who portrayed Mayor Bill Pugen on the 1990s CBS seriesPicket Fencesand taught acting and directing at USC for more than 25 years, has died.
He was 80. Keenan died Thursday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his family announced.
Keenan also appeared in 1999-2000 as Baron van Swieten in Peter Hall's Tony-nominated revival ofAmadeuson Broadway and showed up on episodes ofQuincy M.E.,WKRP in Cincinnati,Hill Street Blues,Cheers,Dallasand theStar TrekseriesThe Next Generation,VoyagerandDeep Space Nine.
Born on Dec. 12, 1939, in Los Angeles and raised in Pasadena, Keenan got his first taste of the arts as a boy chorister with the San Francisco Opera in 1951.
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