LOST IN SPACE - LOST IN SPACE STAR MAY DIES

LOST IN SPACE STAR MAY DIES

LOST IN SPACE star BOB MAY has died of congestive heart failure. He was 69.
The actor, who played The Robot in the sci-fi TV series, passed away on Sunday (18Jan09) in Lancaster Community Hospital in California.
May acted in several movies, TV shows and on the vaudeville stage but was best known for his part in the 1960s programme as the Robinson family's loyal sidekick - a role he claimed to have won by accident.
His co-star June Lockhart, who played Maureen Robinson, recalls, "He always said he got the job because he fit in the robot suit.
"It was one of those wonderful Hollywood stories. He just happened to be on the studio lot when someone saw him and sent him to see (series creator) Irwin Allen about the part.
"Allen said, 'If you can fit in the suit you've got the job.'"
May and his wife were left devastated in November (08) after losing their family home in the wildfires that ravished parts of Southern California.