{"id":827791,"date":"2026-08-27T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:32:10","slug":"samuel-monroe-jr-dead-menace-ii-society-actor-was-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827791\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Monroe Jr. Dead: ‘Menace II Society’ Actor Was 52"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSamuel Monroe Jr.<\/a>, who made his acting debut in 1993\u2019s Menace II Society and went on to appear in Tales from the Hood, The Players Club and various TV roles, died Wednesday, August 26, months after first battling a severe case of meningitis and MRSA pneumonia. He was 52. <\/p>\n

\n\tHis mother Joyce Patton, announced his death in a Facebook post <\/a>today. \u201cI want to thank all of my Facebook family and friends new and old for praying for Samuel Monroe, Jr., my son,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut today God called him home. Please honor my final request to pray for the family, especially his 3 children.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier yesterday Patton posted a message stating that Monroe was \u201chaving a procedure please pray now. Not looking good, please pray.\u201d His hospitalization is believed to have been related to the meningitis, and reports indicate he was on life support at the time.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in Los Angeles on November 28, 1973, Monroe first gained notice in 1993 with his appearance in The\u00a0Hughes Brothers\u2019 Menace II Society. Around that time he also appeared in the Patti LaBelle sitcom Out All Night.<\/p>\n

\n\tNext came Tales from the Hood in 1995, Don\u2019t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), two episodes of NYPD Blue, the \u201996 film Set It Off with Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah and Vivica A. Fox, and in 1998 Ice Cube\u2019s The Players Club.<\/p>\n

\n\tSubsequent credits include episodes of Southland and Black Jesus, as well as films She Ball, Blood Sacrifice and, in 2023, Packz. His IMdB page lists an upcoming comedy film, Extra\u2019d Out, as being in pre-production.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe is survived by his mother and three sons; additional information on survivors was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Monroe Jr., who made his acting debut in 1993\u2019s Menace II Society and went on to appear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,26522,88,350626,17204,13441,350627],"class_list":["post-827791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-deaths","tag-entertainment","tag-menace-ii-socity","tag-novid","tag-obituary","tag-samuel-monroe-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}