Actor Patrick Stewart dies at 86

We have breaking news and sad news out of Hollywood this afternoon. Patrick Stewart, the classically trained actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon, if you will, added gravitas to film franchises like Star Trek and X-Men film, has died. He was 86 years old. Stewart died yesterday, we understand, in Los Angeles following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia. according to a spokesperson, while best known as Professor Charles Xavier and Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the X-Men and Star Trek: The Next Generation movie series and films, Stewart spent most of his career on stage um, and besides playing everyone from Claudius to Macbeth he often performed a one-man rendition of A Christmas Carol and did West End and Broadway runs of Harold Pinter's No Man Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in a repertoire with buddy Ian McKellen. Patrick Stewart, the famous actor who you've no doubt seen on screen and on stage, dead this afternoon at the age of 86.