{"id":18770,"date":"2023-08-02T13:48:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/?p=18770"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:48:44","slug":"marc-gilpin-jaws-actor-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/marc-gilpin-jaws-actor-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Gilpin: Perry Gilpin’s Brother & ‘Jaws’ Actor Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Jaws 2<\/em>, Marc Gilpin played the youngest son of Roy Scheider’s character, Police Chief Martin Brody, and was 11 when the movie came out. The Fraiser<\/em> actress Peri Gilpin, who is also Marc’s older sister, recently announced his tragic death at the age of 56. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was the cause of Marc Gilpin’s death?<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Source: Jaws 2 \/ IMDB<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Marc Gilpin sadly passed away after a long battle with glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, with his sister Peri revealing the news. Gilpin is survived by his wife of 24 years, Kaki, and their two sons, Spencer and Presley. His two other sisters, April and Patti, both died in recent year, leaving Peri to be his only other family remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Marc Gilpin \/ Facebook <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

What was Marc Gilpin’s legacy in film and TV?<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Source: Universal \/ Kobal \/ Shutterstock <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Marc Gilpin booked his first national commercial for Exxon when he was four years old, also performing in the NBC series\u00a0Thunder<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Where\u2019s Willy?<\/em> before his most famous role. He is widely known for his portrayal of Sean Brody\u00a0in the 1978 sequel to Jaws<\/em>. He was 11 years old when the picture was released, and he eventually acted in other films, including NBC’s CHiPs<\/em> and ABC’s Fantasy Land,\u00a0Earthbound <\/em>and The Legend of the Long Ranger.<\/em> Gilpin also starred in the Zach Galligan lead 1985 ABC telefilm Surviving<\/em>.\u00a0Gilpin was then discovered in Massachusetts while visiting Peri by manager Jerry Silverhardt, after receiving positive feedback for the film.\u00a0After working on a multitude of episodes on NBC\u2019s\u00a0Silver Spoons<\/em>\u00a0and ABC\u2019s\u00a0China Beach<\/em>\u00a0along with the 1989 movie\u00a0She\u2019s Out of Control<\/em>, Gilpin became a self-taught software engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Jaws 2, Marc Gilpin played the youngest son of Roy Scheider’s character, Police Chief Martin Brody, and was 11 when the movie came out. The Fraiser actress Peri Gilpin, who is also Marc’s older sister, recently announced his tragic death at the age of 56. What was the cause of Marc Gilpin’s death? Marc […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,2,11],"tags":[1794,1351,2461,774,2618,401,4196,1294,4192,4193,1607,1444,1519,4194,112,1657,4197,4195,90,1608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18780,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions\/18780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}