‘Unhealthy Information Bears’ Actor Jeffrey Louis Starr Lifeless at 61

Jeffrey Louis Starr — a former little one actor — has died … TMZ has confirmed with a number of relations.

Starr handed away final month … with a household supply telling us he took his final breath in a hospital in Carbondale, Illinois surrounded by family members. We’re instructed he coping with an sickness earlier than he died.

Jeffrey’s brother, Kevin, and sister-in-law, Michele, posted on social media after he handed … remembering Jeffrey as somebody who gave nice hugs, had an enormous coronary heart and appeared to make and have associates at nearly each place he walked into.

Value noting … Kevin additionally talked about that Jeffrey was sick for a number of years and “despair is likely one of the largest killers on this planet.” Unclear precisely what he means by that.

Baseball followers will acknowledge Starr as catcher Mike Engelberg in two sequels to the hit 1976 flick “The Unhealthy Information Bears” — “The Unhealthy Information Bears in Breaking Coaching” and “The Unhealthy Information Bears Go to Japan.”

Starr changed Gary Lee Cavagnaro who performed the function within the authentic film which was led by Walter Mathau and Jackie Earle Haley.

Mathau did not return to the collection, however Haley did … and, Starr nonetheless set to work with some big-time names in Tony Curtis and William Devane.

Whereas Starr does not have another official credit, our sources say he appeared as an additional in a number of tasks throughout his later years. He additionally grew to become a deacon at his church in 2010.

Starr married his spouse Linda in 1981 … and, the 2 remained fortunately married for the subsequent 44 years. He is survived by his two sons — Brandon and Jacob — in addition to quite a few grandchildren.

Jeffrey was 61.