For three seasons from 1965-68, Mark Goddard starred in the series 'Lost In Space'. Photos: Handout, TNS
Mark Goddard, the actor known for playing Major Don West, in the campy, popular 1960s science fiction series Lost In Space, died of pulmonary fibrosis on Tuesday (Oct 10), at a hospice centre in Hingham, Massachusetts, US his wife, Evelyn Pezzluich, announced on Facebook. He was 87.
Goddard was hospitalised with pneumonia days after celebrating his birthday, said Pezzluich. He was transferred to a rehabilitation center where doctors discovered that he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis.
