Richard de Angelis of The Wire dead at 73

Richard de Angelis died of congestive heart failure on December 28th at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was also suffering from prostate cancer.

De Angelis played Baltimore police Col. Raymond Foerster on 13 episodes of HBO's The Wire. He also had roles in Homicide: The Movie, and the John Waters films A Dirty Shame, and Cecil B. Demented. Before he was an actor, he was a comedian who went by the name of Ricky Roach. Before that, he was an accountant who quit his job and went to acting school at the age of 38.