{"id":158097,"date":"2022-12-15T01:38:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T01:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stuart-margolin-emmy-winning-the-rockford-files-actor-dead-at-82\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T01:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T01:38:23","slug":"stuart-margolin-emmy-winning-the-rockford-files-actor-dead-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stuart-margolin-emmy-winning-the-rockford-files-actor-dead-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Margolin, Emmy-winning ‘The Rockford Files’ actor, dead at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stuart Margolin, an Emmy-winning actor from “The Rockford Files,” has died. He was 82.<\/p>\n
His stepdaughter Michelle Martini told USA TODAY on Wednesday that the actor died Monday, a decade after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n
“It just got to a point where it was too hard to fight (the cancer) anymore,” she said.<\/p>\n
Martini recalled the impact Margolin had on her family. The actor married her mother Patricia Margolin in 1982, becoming stepfather to her and her brothers Max and Christopher.<\/p>\n
“He was one of the most generous people I’ve ever met,” Martini said. “He really took my brothers and myself, and he made a family for us, and he changed our lives in so many ways. And he was an amazing husband to my mother.”<\/p>\n\n
Patricia recalled her “lifelong romance” with Margolin to USA TODAY, which began when they were teenagers and met in juvenile court. Margolin was on trial for running away from home and attempting to live on his own at age 14. Patricia, also a teenager at the time, was tasked with judging the case due to a criminal justice reform initiative that sought to have juveniles with lesser cases evaluated by their peers.<\/p>\n
“I was a juvenile judge, and I found him guilty and referred him to the Dallas Police Department,” said Patricia, who also went on to have a career in law enforcement. “That’s how we met.”<\/p>\n