Dustin Diamond, ‘Saved by the Bell’ Actor, Dies at 44

Dustin Diamond was the only original star absent from the Saved By The Bell reboot during its first season.

Tori Spelling has shared a tribute to her Saved by the Bell co-star Dustin Diamond, who has died from lung cancer aged 44. Spelling starred as Violet Bickerstaff, a newcomer at Bayside High who wins the heart of Diamond’s character Samuel “Screech” Powers, in season two of the popular US sitcom.

Dustin Diamond, the actor best known for portraying Samuel "Screech" Powers on beloved NBC sitcom Saved By the Bell, has died, his rep confirms. He was 44.

Dustin Diamond has died at the age of 44 following a short battle with cancer. The ‘Saved by the Bell’ star – who was best known for playing Samuel 'Screech' Powers in the hit sitcom – was confirmed to be battling stage four small cell carcinoma in January, and on Monday (01.

Dustin Diamond's former castmates are speaking out after his death. The actor, who starred as Screech on the '90s sitcom, died at age 44 on Monday, three weeks after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, a member of his team confirmed to ET. TMZwas the first to report the news.Following Diamond's death, his co-stars took to social media to remember him.On Twitter, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, 's Zack Morris, wrote that he was «deeply saddened» by Diamond's death, adding that the late actor was «a true

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Dustin Diamond was an actor best known for starring as Samuel “Screech” Powers in “Saved by the Bell” and its spin-offs.Diamond joined the “Saved by the Bell” cast in its earliest days in 1988, when the show was still called “Good Morning Miss Bliss” and revolved around a junior high school teacher. When, after a year, the show was retooled into “Saved by the Bell,” Diamond remained with it, playing the school nerd who was friends with his popular classmates at Bayside High.

Dustin Diamond is dead, his rep confirmed to HollywoodLife on Feb. 1.

found out he had stage 4 cancer last month, has been told he has anything from a few weeks to a year or two left — although his friends are hoping he “outlives the odds.” Diamond — who played lovable Screech Powers in the teen sitcom — has told pals his last wishes are to meet his idol Justin Chancellor, the British bassist from heavy metal band Tool, and visit the “Star Wars” exhibit at Disney World in Florida.“We do not have any specific timelines, but we know that Dustin needs a miracle to

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Dustin Diamond, best known for playing Samuel ‘Screech’ Powers in Saved by the Bell, has completed his first round of chemotherapy for stage 4 lung cancer, a representative for the star has said. The 44-year-old actor was hospitalised in Florida earlier this month and announced that he was diagnosed with cancer.