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For three seasons from 1965-68, Mark Goddard starred in the series 'Lost In Space'. Photos: Handout, TNS, died of pulmonary fibrosis on Tuesday , at a hospice centre in Hingham, Massachusetts, US his wife, Evelyn Pezzluich, announced on Facebook. He was 87.
Goddard was hospitalised with pneumonia days after celebrating his birthday, said Pezzluich. He was transferred to a rehabilitation center where doctors discovered that he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis. For three seasons from 1965-68, Goddard, as West, starred in the CBS series that chronicled the adventures of the Robinson family, a talking robot and a dastardly stowaway, Dr. Smith.
The group became stranded on a distant planet after their ship, the Jupiter 2, went off course en route to colonise a planet in the Alpha Centauri system.Although the series eventually became a cult classic, Goddard initially did not want to be part it."I didn't want to do it," he said in 1990."Now, the reason I didn't want do the series at first is because I had never done science fiction, and had no idea what it was going to be like.""R.I.P. to Mark Goddard.
Goddard attended Holy Cross College in Worcester and dreamed of a career as a professional basketball player. But after acting in a play in 1957, he headed to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.Although his acting career waned, Goddard still appeared in TV shows and films over the years. In 1998, he made a cameo in the movie version ofBy 1991, at age 55, Goddard decided to switch course.