The character played by LeVar Burton in "Roots" died in what year?
LeVar Burton Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author. He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children's series "Reading Rainbow", Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in "" and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries "Roots". He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of "Star Trek", among other programs.
Carl Reindel Carl Warren Reindel (January 20, 1935   September 4, 2009) was an American actor, known for portraying Lieutenant Kenneth M. Taylor in the epic war film "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Reindel also played "Stanton" in Steve McQueen's hit film "Bullitt" and "Lt. Comroe" in classic science fiction film "The Andromeda Strain". Reindel also made several appearances on popular TV series. In 1964 he appeared on "Perry Mason" as defendant and title character Barry Davis in "The Case of the Drifting Dropout," and in 1966 he played golf caddy and murderer Danny Bright in "The Case of the Golfer's Gambit." He also appeared on "Gunsmoke", "The F.B.I.", "Bonanza", "The Virginian" (as Carl Reindell), and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", and also played the son of a man bent on vengeance on the western series Wagon Train before leaving show business in the early 1980s. Reindel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died of a heart attack at the age of 74, on September 4, 2009 in Valley Village, California.