Kirk Bailey, who played Kevin “Ug” Lee in the 1991-92 comedy Nickelodeon. Say hello to your shorts, died on February 28, six months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 59.
His death was announced by friends on social networks. TMZ reports the cause of death as lung cancer based on family confirmation.
In the two seasons Say hello to your shorts in a summer camp for teens, Bailey plays camp counselor (both jokes and jokes) Kevin “Ug” Lee. Created by Steve Slavkin and produced by Propaganda Films, the series features Danny Cookie, Eric MacArthur and Blake Sopper as several of the campers.
Although Bailey will appear as an actor in various series after the cult pet Say hello to your shorts, he was most prolific as a voice actor for animated television, film and video games in the decades before his death. Among his television and film voices are credits Cowboy Bebop (1999), Carried by the wind: Tsukikage Ran (2000), Metropolis (2001), Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play – Eikoden (2001), Hotel Transylvania (2012), Frozen (2013), Great hero 6 (2014), The movie Sponge Bob: Mushroom on the Run (2020) and most recently last year The Night of the Animated Dead.
It provides voice work for such video games as Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht and Dead space: Fall.
In front of the camera, Bailey is visiting Felicity, Judge Amy, NYPD Blue, Melrose Place and Star Trek: Voyager.
Information on the survivors was not immediately available.