The most wonderful actor found dead this morning at his home

After a long battle with a rare disease, THE MOST WONDERFUL ACTOR dies at age 76.

Actor Paul D’Amato, who was the inspiration for Marvel’s Wolverine, has died. He was 76 years old.He was famous for his many roles in the US police drama Law & Order.

Family members said he died on Monday after four years of fighting a rare brain disease.
In the 1978 epic war drama The Deer Hunter, he played a sergeant opposite Robert De Niro.

But his role as “Dr. Hook” in the ice hockey hit Slap Shot was what made him want to become Wolverine in the X-Men comics.It was cartoonist John Byrne who said this about D’Amato: “He just had the look.”