Taurean Blacque passed away at 82.
The "Hill Street Blues" detective, Taurean Blacque, has died at the age of 82 in Atlanta after briefly suffering from illness.
Blacque son Rodney shared the devastating news on his Facebook account.
For all seven seasons of the popular NBC cop show, Blacque starred alongside Michael Warren, Daniel J. Travanti, Charles Haid, Michael Conrad and Bruce Weitz in “Hill Street Blues.” The show ran from 1981-1987 and garnered Blacque an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series in 1982. In fact, the category that year was owned by “Hill Street Blues,” which saw all five nominees coming from the show created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll. The other four nominees were Warren, Haid, Conrad and Weitz.
Blacque was born Herbert Middleton Jr. in Newark, New Jersey, on May 10, 1940.
He started his acting career in the mid-1970s at the New York-based Negro Ensemble Company, where he gained ground as a stage actor, later from stage to tv series.
