7-466: Raymond Vitte (November 20, 1949 – February 20, 1983) was an American actor who starred mostly in comedy and drama films in the 1970s and early 1980s. He made numerous guest appearances on television shows and was a cast member of the show Doc in 1976. Vitte, who had been fevered for days and acting strangely for hours in his Los Angeles home, died in 1983 following a scuffle with two Los Angeles Police Department officers who were transporting Vitte to
14-418: A disturbance somehow, is now dead because his neighbors called the police". A spokesman for the coroner's office said preliminary results of an autopsy showed "superficial injuries consistent with a struggle" but which were "not responsible for his death". According to the coroner's report, Vitte died of complications from sickle cell disease . This article about a United States film actor born in
21-543: A nearby hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. In February 1983, police were called to Vitte's home in Studio City by neighbors claiming that a man had been making "religious shoutings laced with references to Muhammad " for more than 12 hours". Vitte allegedly lunged at one of the officers who subsequently struck him with a baton . Vitte attempted to run away, but was struck again by officers who also used tear gas with no effect. After Vitte ran away again, he fell down at
28-472: The 1940s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Doc (1975 TV series) Doc is an American sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises which aired on CBS from August 16, 1975, to October 30, 1976. Doc starred Barnard Hughes as Dr. Joe Bogert, an elderly, kindhearted general practitioner who divided his time between dealing with his dysfunctional patients and his even more dysfunctional family . Hughes had been seen occasionally on
35-639: The CBS-TV sitcoms All in the Family as Father John Majeski and on The Bob Newhart Show as Bob's father Herb Hartley. On Doc , actress Elizabeth Wilson costarred with Hughes as Joe's wife Annie, Judith Kahan as his daughter Laurie, John Harkins as Laurie's husband, and Mary Wickes as Joe's nurse, Tully. During the first season, the show had good ratings, partially due to its timeslot (Saturdays at 8:30 p.m., sandwiched between mega-hits The Jeffersons and The Mary Tyler Moore Show ). CBS, however, thought
42-399: The ratings should be better considering the scheduling and ordered that the show be reworked. When it returned in the fall of 1976, the format had been substantially changed, with Dr. Bogert now a widower, working at a down-and-out city clinic. Mary Wickes was the only other cast member from the first season to remain, but she departed after the first episode. Ratings slipped and the series
49-613: The side of a swimming pool where officers handcuffed him and placed him into a squad car. En route to a hospital for a mental evaluation, the officers noticed Vitte had stopped breathing. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. A group including singer Donna Summer and the president of the Beverly Hills - Hollywood chapter of the NAACP protested Vitte's death in a news conference, with Summer saying "...a man who's basically minding his own business in his own home, who happens to be creating
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