{"id":793915,"date":"2026-07-11T00:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793915\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:35:18","slug":"emergency-star-randolph-mantooth-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793915\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Emergency!&#8217; Star Randolph Mantooth Dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260710_9bf02ec311d64fbab05271f1e0fb24de\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:68c203ff-e0bd-4aab-bd51-7a4a1fa1e6c2\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9bf02ec311d64fbab05271f1e0fb24de_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-Randolph-Mantooth-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/randolph-mantooth\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randolph Mantooth<\/a>, the actor best known for his iconic portrayal of paramedic John Gage on &#8220;Emergency!,&#8221; has died, TMZ confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/donald-mantooth\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Mantooth<\/a>, his brother, tells TMZ &#8230; the TV, film, and stage actor died peacefully Thursday in a Ventura hospice surrounded by friends and family. The actor had been sick for several years with a variety of cancers, starting with throat cancer. He battled them as best he could, but the toll it took on his body was just too much, his brother says.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260710_cd43b1e8270a4aba97abd434432d0e80\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:68c203ff-e0bd-4aab-bd51-7a4a1fa1e6c2\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cd43b1e8270a4aba97abd434432d0e80_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-Randolph-Mantooth-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working in Hollywood for more than 50 years &#8230; Mantooth appeared in dozens and dozens of projects such as &#8220;ER,&#8221; &#8220;LA Law,&#8221; &#8220;China Beach,&#8221; &#8220;Baywatch,&#8221; &#8220;Fantasy Island,&#8221; and &#8220;Charlie&#8217;s Angels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260710_c005f6b8b3994d89b36c06eedc44c54a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:68c203ff-e0bd-4aab-bd51-7a4a1fa1e6c2\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c005f6b8b3994d89b36c06eedc44c54a_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-Randolph-Mantooth-getty-2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For two decades, beginning in the 1990s, he appeared in several daytime\u00a0soap operas, earning four Soap Opera Digest Award\u00a0nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Mantooth is survived by his brother, sister, nieces, and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>He was 80.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randolph Mantooth, the actor best known for his iconic portrayal of paramedic John Gage on &#8220;Emergency!,&#8221; has died,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-793915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}