Who was the Saturday Live Star murdered by his wife?

Answer 1

Phil Hartman

Answer 2

Phil Hartman

Answer 3

Phil Hartman

Answer 4

Phil Hartman

Answer 5

Phil Hartman

Answer 6

Yes it was Phil Hartman

Answer 7

Phil Hartman. He also was in News Radio for those of you old enough to remember.

Answer 8

Hartman was a victim of murder-suicide. He was murdered by his wife Brynn on May 28, 1998, in his Encino, California home, at the age of 49. While Phil slept, Brynn came into the bedroom with a revolver that reportedly Phil had given to her as a present, aimed it at Phil and shot him in the head, fatally wounding him. Death was presumably instant. She drove to the home of Ron Douglas, a friend of hers, and said "I shot Phil," after which she passed out. Douglas did not believe her initially, but he found the gun in her handbag and understood. Brynn woke back up and drove the two back to Phil's house, where Douglas saw Phil's lifeless body. He called paramedics and the police, but when the police arrived Brynn fled to the bedroom where Phil was. Brynn pulled out a second revolver and committed suicide by shooting herself in the head.

Hartman was mourned greatly in Hollywood. NewsRadio produced a special episode where the cast tearfully mourned the death of Hartman's on-screen counterpart. Jon Lovitz joined the show in his place and stayed with it until its ultimate cancellation. Lovitz had been a Saturday Night Live cast member alongside Hartman for four seasons, and had also worked with Hartman when they both had cameos in the 1986 comedy Three Amigos. Lovitz and Hartman's former SNL collegues also gave him an emotional remembrance at the SNL 25th Anniversary show in 2000.

Out of respect, the writers on The Simpsons retired Hartman's characters, rather than finding another voice actor. The episode "Bart the Mother" marked his final appearance on the show, and was dedicated to him. On audio commentary tracks accompanying The Simpsons DVD releases, the appearance of a Hartman character uniformly evokes heartfelt praise from the writers, show runners, directors, and creators, et al., who are commenting. A number of major Simpsons players talk at length about their experience of Hartman as a rare combination of professionalism, effortless comedic facility, friendliness, and decency. The most frequent commentators often spoke of their practice to work in a Hartman character whenever possible, simply to get him into the studio. On at least one occasion, the writers commenting admitted that they considered bringing Hartman in as a form of cheating, as his voice acting would mine humor out of even a mediocre script. Hartman's death is mentioned by the writers only in the course of explaining that replacing him with another voice actor was not considered.

Hartman was appearing in a cliffhanger on the series 3rd Rock from the Sun at the time of his death. His character did not appear in the second episode of the cliffhanger.

Answer 9

Phil Martin. He also played in Small Soldiers.