Deadline<\/a>. He was 75. <\/p>\n\n\tIn 1972, Gray was cast in NBC\u2019s The Little People. He appeared as student doctor Ronnie Collins on the first season alongside Brian Keith and Shelly Fabares. He would land his big break a few years later as Batson on the morning live-action show Shazam!, portraying a teenage kid who could turn into the flying superhero Captain Marvel (played by Jackson Bostwick and then John Davey) by uttering one word \u2014 \u201cshazam.\u201d The show aired for three seasons from 1974 to 1976. <\/p>\n
\n\tGray also featured in guest roles on other series including The Brady Bunch, appearing as Marcia\u2019s boyfriend on a 1973 episode, Dynasty, Marcus Welby, M.D., The Flying Nun, and Room 222. <\/p>\n
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\n\tMost recently, Gray voiced \u201cTV\u2019s Michael Gray,\u201d on four episodes of the FX comedy Archer from 2015 to 2019. In 2016, he featured in the AMC franchise Surge of Power, and had a cameo in 2023\u2019s Shazam! Fury of the Gods, interacting with Zachary Levi\u2019s Captain Marvel in a nod to the original series. <\/p>\n
\n\tDuring a Comic-Con panel in 2012, Gray discussed his time as the star of Shazam! \u201cI didn\u2019t know the character or the story when I was initially cast, so I had to be a quick study \u2013 so it was fun and exhausting, challenging and thrilling, all at once,\u201d he said, per Deadline. \u201cIt didn\u2019t matter that it was on Saturday morning or primetime \u2014 though the fact that it was one of the first few live-action shows on Saturday morning was exciting. It truly was a thrilling show to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actor got his big break after landing the role of Billy Batson on the live-action show\u00a0 Michael…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,5365],"class_list":["post-654817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}