English Shakespearean actor Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE has died.
Stewart was best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation which he later reprised for the films Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis.
He was also well known as Professor Xavier in the X-Men films.
In 2001, Stewart received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and was made a Knight Bachelor in 2010, the latter making him Sir Patrick.
Stewart appeared on Sesame Street twice where he performed a spoof of "Hamlet's Soliloquy", titled "B or not a B" and in an insert with the Count.
He also voiced Napoleon in the 1999 Creature Shop-effects film Animal Farm.
Stewart's other voice credits include American Dad!, the 2007 animated film TMNT, and Disney's feature films Chicken Little and Bambi II.
On Broadway, Stewart starred in his one man version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol appeared in The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth.
Patrick Stewart was 86.
Other credits include Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights, L.A. Story, hosting Saturday Night Live, and guest spots on Reading Rainbow and Frasier
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