Tv Comedy Series: Toronto International Film Festival

International Film Festival Dept: Writing about him this week, his friend Rick Salutin said: “Maury’s madness was moving and ethereal, as if he knew something, saw too far, sensed the horizon of vulnerability, mortality, nullity – whatever – that surrounds us all.” But it was also a madness infused by a great comic understanding, a sense of the absurd, other side of life’s Janus-like coin, according to Globe And Mail. Ironic, in a way, since it was his own emotional vulnerabilities – and his willingness to share them with audiences – that made him such a gifted actor and so mesmerizing on the screen and still, it’s safe to say that his riveting, jaw-dropping turn as the mad, shambling, incontinent and ultimately suicidal Major Fambrough caught the attention of heavyweight American producers and casting directors. Thereafter, Chaykin worked steadily, often in small, carefully chosen, off-kilter character roles in which, at times, he came close to larceny – virtually stealing the movie from bigger-name stars. Maury Alan Chaykin died July 27th in Toronto on his 61st birthday. Although his body had been ravaged in recent years by cancer and kidney disease, he’d made a valiant effort to get well, including undergoing dialysis treatments. Despite his frailty, he had completed the second season of Less Than Kind , a hit TV comedy series about a dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg, and he had managed to shoot a small role in Casino Jack , a thriller scheduled to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall. In the end, a sudden staph infection developed in a heart valve and roared through his vulnerable system, taking his life. As reported in the news.
@t staph infection, globe and mail