LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Stage actor and director Gar Campbell, who earned a strong reputation in Los Angeles' stage community, has died at the age of 64.
The Los Angeles Times said Saturday Campbell, who helped found the city's Company Theater in 1967, died in Los Angeles following a lengthy battle with cancer.
Composer Kurt Weill, whose work "Johnny Johnson" gained popularity at the Los Angeles theater, remembered Campbell as a gregarious actor with a gift for the stage.
"He was always an extraordinary actor," Kent said of Campbell, who died Thursday. "Onstage he had a big sense of life and was very funny. He was gifted, tall and handsome and had that matinee idol kind of thing."
Campbell later served in numerous productions at the Pacific Resident Theatre, including "The Quick-Change Room" and "Ondine."
The Times said a memorial for Campbell will take place at the Los Angeles theater in January.
