Anthony Guidera, an actor and model who played pilots for Michael Bay in The Rock and Armageddon and shared a memorable kiss with Natasha Henstridge in Species, has died. He was 65.
Guidera died Saturday in a Los Angeles-area hospital, his wife, Valarie, told TMZ. He was taken off life support after he had suffered a heart issue at their home on May 11, she said.
The hunky Guidera also appeared in Scott Winant’s ’Til There Was You (1997) and Kevin Costner’s The Postman (1997) and portrayed a gun seller in Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish (1999).
And on television, he showed up on everything from Renegade, Baywatch, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Red Shoe Diaries and Hope & Gloria to Nash Bridges, Acapulco H.E.A.T., Angel, ER and, on a 2005 episode for his last credit, L.A. Dicks.
In the sci-fi horror film Species (1995), directed by Roger Donaldson, Guidera’s character doesn’t know Henstridge’s Sil is an alien/human hybrid organism when he forces her to kiss him — to disastrous results.
