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The Addams Family, has died from pancreatic cancer, aged 84.Silla’s death was confirmed by his friend and fellow actor Gil Gerard in a tweet on Friday evening (April 16). The pair starred together in sci-fi series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.“Felix died just a few hours ago and the only good I can draw from his passing is that he didn’t suffer any longer,” Gerard said.

Felix Silla, who worked inside a body-length hairpiece, behind a pair of sunglasses and underneath a bowler hat in his guise as the mumbling Cousin Itt on the 1960s ABC comedy The Addams Family, has died. He was 84.

Felix Silla has sadly passed away.

Haley Bosselman editorFelix Silla, the actor who played beloved hairy Addams family member Cousin Itt, has died. He was 84.His “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” castmate, Gil Gerard, confirmed the news on Twitter.

Felix Silla, best known as the gibberish-spouting Cousin Itt on the 1960s TV sitcom The Addams Family, died today from pancreatic cancer. He was 84 and died in Las Vegas, according to a tweet from Gil Gerard, who costarred with him on the 1979-81 NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Buck Rogers.In addition to being an executive producer, the project could also be a “starring vehicle” for Clooney, according to The Hollywood Reporter.First appearing in in the 1920s before becoming a comic book mainstay in the 1930s, Buck Rogers is a NASA astronaut who falls into a coma and wakes up in the 25th century.