James Useful, a personality actor in such movies as “Logan,” “Prime Gun: Maverick” and “Arachnophobia,” was discovered stabbed to demise at a house in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the police said. He was 81.
A 44-year-old man who’s the son of Mr. Useful’s girlfriend was arrested on a homicide cost, in keeping with a press release from the Los Angeles Police Division.
The police mentioned that they had been alerted to the crime when a person referred to as 911 saying: “I’m the son of man. I simply killed the person of sin.”
Upon arriving on the residence, within the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, cops discovered Mr. Useful unconscious within the entrance yard with a stab wound to the chest. He was pronounced lifeless after being transported to a hospital.
The suspect, Michael Gledhill, who lived on the residence together with his mom, flagged down cops and advised them he was the individual they have been in search of, the police mentioned.
Mr. Gledhill was being held on $2 million bail.
Mr. Useful’s many roles included a physician in “Logan,” a bartender in “Prime Gun” and a coroner in “Arachnophobia.” He additionally appeared in “Jumanji,” “The Rocketeer” and plenty of tv reveals, together with enjoying the director of the C.I.A. in “Alias.”
“I couldn’t have requested for a extra proficient, humble or gracious consumer and pal than James Useful,” his expertise agent, Pam Ellis-Evenas of the Ellis Expertise Group, advised The Related Press.
Georgia Gee contributed analysis.
