John Heard, an actor who played offended characters in dramas however was most likely best known for his role as the father who erroneously left his youngest son behind on a family trip to Paris within the comedy “Home Alone,” died on Friday in Palo Alto, California He was 71. The santa clara County medical examiner’s office said the cause was under investigation.
Mr. heard recently had surgery for back pain at Stanford University center and was ill at a nearby hotel, where a housekeeper found his body, his former wife, Sharon heard, said in an interview on Saturday.
Mr. heard started his career taking part in serious roles within the theater and was praised for his racking performance as a disabled and emotionally tortured Vietnam veteran in the 1981 film “Cutter’s way,” that additionally starred Jeff Bridges.
Mr. heard gained recognition principally for lighter roles in films of the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s like “Home Alone,” in which he played Macaulay Culkin’s father, and before that “Big,” with tom hanks.
