For three seasons from 1965-68, Goddard, as Maj. Don West, starred in the CBS series that chronicled the adventures of the Robinson family, a talking robot and a dastardly stowaway, Dr. Smith.
Mark Goddard, the actor known for playing Maj. Don West, in the campy, popular 1960s science fiction series “Lost in Space,” died of pulmonary fibrosis on Tuesday, at a hospice center in Hingham, Massachusetts, his wife, Evelyn Pezzluich, announced on Facebook. He was 87.
Mark Goddard attends the premiere of Netflix's "Lost In Space" Season 1 at The Cinerama Dome on April 9, 2018, in Los Angeles. The show, created by Irwin Allen, a producer who was known as the “Master of Disaster” for such films as “The Towering Inferno,” helped popularize the phrase, “danger, Will Robinson.”
“R.I.P. to Mark Goddard. A truly beloved friend and brother to me for 59 years. I knew this was coming for the past few months. Shortly after a great phone chat he and I had on his 87th birthday in late July, I became aware that I would most likely never see or speak with him again. The last words we exchanged were ‘I love you,” wrote his “Lost in Space” co-star Bill Mumy on
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