{"id":876496,"date":"2026-10-09T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876496\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:30:08","slug":"scream-actor-c-w-morgan-dead-at-72-as-daughter-pays-tribute-i-miss-you-endlessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876496\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Scream’ actor C.W. Morgan dead at 72 as daughter pays tribute: ‘I miss you endlessly’"},"content":{"rendered":"

C.W. Morgan, best known for playing Ghostface killer Billy Loomis\u2019 dad in \u201cScream,\u201d has died. He was 72.<\/p>\n

The actor\u2019s daughter Renata Macfie confirmed his passing on her Facebook page<\/a> on Aug. 31 with an emotional tribute.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never going to have the right words for this post. Loosing [sic] you has left the biggest hole in my heart,\u201d she wrote alongside a throwback picture of the two of them from her childhood.<\/p>\n

C.W. Morgan, best known for playing Ghostface killer Billy Loomis\u2019 dad in the original \u201cScream\u201d film, has died. (Pictured: Morgan and Skeet Ulrich in \u201cScream.\u201d) Miramax\/Kobal\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The 72-year-old actor\u2019s daughter Renata Macfie confirmed his passing in August via Facebook. Miramax<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss you endlessly already. I will carry on our Mulholland drives and our Starbucks outings. I\u2019m grateful and lucky to have had you as my daddy. My Guck. Rest easy bubby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macfie concluded, \u201cLife will never be the same without you and your poorly timed jokes that I inherited from you. Love you endlessly (no more fighting about that anymore I win).\u201d<\/p>\n

Los Angeles\u00a0Medical Examiner records obtained by the Daily Mail <\/a>say the actor, born Curtis Wade Morgan,\u00a0died on Aug. 30 in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never going to have the right words for this post. Loosing you has left the biggest hole in my heart,\u201d she wrote alongside a throwback photo of them (seen above). Renata Macfie\/Facebook<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful and lucky to have had you as my daddy,\u201d she penned. Renata Macfie\/Facebook<\/p>\n

According to Los Angeles ME records obtained by the Daily Mail, the actor (pictured here) died on Aug. 30 in Los Angeles County. c.w._morgan\/Instagram<\/p>\n

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His cause of death remains unclear, but records indicate he died in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

An LAPD spokesperson told TMZ<\/a> that officers responded to a call for a death investigation and the death appears to have been from natural causes. <\/p>\n

Morgan was best known for portraying Hank Loomis in the 1996 horror film \u201cScream.\u201d <\/p>\n

His cause of death is unknown but believed to be natural causes. (Pictured: Morgan in 2024.) CW Morgan\/Facebook<\/p>\n

Morgan (pictured in a throwback photo) was best known for his role in the original scream and also returned for a flashback scene in \u201cScream 3.\u201d Renata Macfie\/Facebook<\/p>\n

In the original 1996 film, his character Hank has an affair and breaks up his family, sending his son Billy (pictured far left) into a murderous rage against his friend group. \u00a9Dimension Films\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

He played Billy Loomis\u2019 father, a prominent lawyer and ex-husband of Nancy Loomis, played by Laurie Metcalf. <\/p>\n

In the film, Hank had a secret affair with Sidney Prescott\u2019s mother, Maureen Prescott, which ultimately broke up the Loomis family and caused Billy \u2014 the original Ghostface \u2014 to descend into a murderous rage.<\/p>\n

Morgan returned to the iconic film franchise four years later in a flashback scene in 2000\u2019s \u201cScream 3.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor\u2019s final role was as Coleman Spencer in an episode of \u201cNash Bridges,\u201d which aired in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C.W. Morgan, best known for playing Ghostface killer Billy Loomis\u2019 dad in \u201cScream,\u201d has died. He was 72.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1508,236,7569,91,88,954,6842,206,92],"class_list":["post-876496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-horror","tag-movies","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876496","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=876496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}