Gene Lyons who played Raymond Burr's (Robert T Ironside) boss on the police drama Ironside died shortly before the show's end. He looked pale in the reruns to me and because the show used tecnicolor it's hard to tell if he was ill or if the tape is just worn. I looked up his biography and it says nothing about the cause of death. I mean the guy died younger than John Ritter and there is absolutely no inforamtion on him that I can find. If you know anything at all please let me know.