Actor James Tolken, who played the naval commander of Top Gun and the director of the school Back to the Futuredied on Thursday, March 26, at the age of 94.
According to his agent on Saturday, the 28th, Tolken died at home in Lake Placid, New York. The cause of death was not announced.
Em Back to the FutureTolkan played the authoritarian academic leader Gerald Strickland, who watched students for trouble in the school hallways, more specifically Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox. “You have a serious attitude problem, McFly,” says Tolkan’s character in the 1985 film. “You’re a slacker. You remind me of your father when you were a student here. He was a slacker, too,” he adds.
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