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Originally Posted by -Slap-

Herve had health problems and he did end up taking his own life. One day I was driving down Hollywood Way in Burbank and I almost ran him over jaywalking. Scared the hell out of both of us and he gave me a really pissed off look. Shot himself a couple months later.

Though popular with the public, Villechaize proved a difficult actor on Fantasy Island where he continually propositioned women and quarreled with the producers. He was eventually fired after demanding that his pay be on par with that of co-star Ricardo Montalbán. The show's popularity waned after this move, and it was soon canceled. According to his former butler in an episode of E! True Hollywood Story[2], Villechaize never got over losing his job, and for the remainder of his life practiced an often nightly ritual of drinking in a darkened room while screaming obscenities at an episode of Fantasy Island playing on his television.

He played the lead character in the 1980 cult classic movie Forbidden Zone.

He made his final appearance in a cameo as himself in an episode of The Ben Stiller Show.

heh...