Jason David Frank, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers star, dies at 49 | Television

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The actor and mixed martial artist Jason David Frank, who starred on the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has passed away, his representatives confirmed to the entertaining news outlet Geek Ireland. He was 49 years old.

Frank attained fame in the early 1990s as the green power ranger, Tommy Oliver, who then becomes the white power ranger on a children’s television show about superheroes who are particularly skilled in martial arts. The show generated spin-off movies, action figures and other toys.

A cause of death wasn’t immediately released, though multiple reports indicated Frank died by suicide.

Word of Frank’s death prompted Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fans to flood social media with tributes.

The professional wrestler the Iron Sheik was among those who posted condolences, writing on Twitter: “RIP JDF YOU THE REAL LEGEND … I LOVE YOU FOREVER.”

Walter Emanuel Jones, the actor who played the original black power ranger, wrote on Instagram that he was sad to have lost a member of his “special family”.

“Can’t believe it,” Jones’s post added.

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