Patrick Stewart died on 28 October at his home in Los Angeles following Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia, his family said in a statement reported by Screen International. Born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, in 1940, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s and won Olivier Awards for "Antony and Cleopatra" in 1979 and for Claudius in "Hamlet" in 2009 before playing Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and four features, and Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" films and "Logan". He was knighted in 2010, and he returns as Xavier in "Avengers: Doomsday" on 18 December.

Source: Screen International, 29 October 2026