LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 18: Actor Grizz Chapman attends the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 18, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
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Grizz Chapman, who starred as Warren “Grizz” Griswold on the classic NBC sitcom 30 Rock, has died.
Grizz was a member of Tracy Jordan’s (Tracy Morgan) entourage as a bodyguard alongside Kevin Brown, who played Walter “Dotcom” Slattery. Brown made the announcement of Chapman’s death on Facebook on Friday. The actor was 52.
“I regret to inform you that Mack Chapman aka Grizz Chapman passed today. May he RIP,” Brown wrote in the Facebook post. Chapman’s representative, Saideh A. Brown, told TMZ that his client died on Friday but gave no other details other than to say that the actor’s wife and two children were devastated by the loss.
Chapman was born on April 16, 1974, in Brooklyn, N.Y. The 7-foot-tall actor made his screen debut on 30 Rock in 2006, and he appeared in 80 episodes over all seven seasons of Tina Fey’s Emmy-winning comedy series through 2013.
Also during his time on the series, Chapman and Brown created the comedy shorts 30 Rock: Livin’ XL with Grizz & Dotcom.
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30 ROCK — “Livin’ XL with Grozz & Dotcom” Webisode 4410 — Air Date 12/12/2009 — Pictured: (l-r) Kevin Brown as Dotcom, Grizz Chapman as Grizz (Photo by Ali Goldstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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