Grizz Chapman, best known for appearing on NBC’s sitcom 30 Rock, has died. He was 52.
Chapman’s co-star, Kevin Brown, on the series, confirmed in a Facebook post that he died Friday. “I regret to inform you that Mack Chapman aka Grizz Chapman passed today,” he wrote in a caption of photos of them in the show. “May he RIP.”
For all seven seasons, Chapman appeared on 30 Rock. He played Grizz Griswold, a bodyguard and member of Tracy Jordan’s (played by Tracy Morgan) entourage. Meanwhile, Brown played Tracy’s other bodyguard, Dot Com. Chapman and Jordan met when Chapman was working as a bouncer at a strip club and they went on to become friends.
Born on April 16, 1974, in New York City, the actor, who stands seven feet tall, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter in 2013 about the difficulties he’s faced because of his height.
“I mean, why can’t a seven-foot guy play a doctor?” he asked rhetorically. “Why can’t I be a teacher? Why can’t I be a football coach? Why can’t I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that,” he said. “I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can’t do. So just give us a chance.”
