Fast Times at Ridgemont High Actor Taylor Negron Dies!

On Saturday, Stand up comedian and Fast Times at Ridgemont High Actor Taylor Negron Dies at 57.

Taylor Negron lost his long battle with cancer. CelebNMusic247.com got word of Taylor Negron passing via his cousin Chuck Negron of the ’70s band “Three Dog Night,” who broke the news with the release of an online video.

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The musician said to Deadline:

“I want to inform you that my cousin Taylor Negron just passed away.”

“His mother, his brother Alex and my brother Rene and his wife Julie were all there with him.”

Born in Glendale, Calif., Taylor Negron studied with Lee Strasberg and even had a private comedy seminar with Lucille Ball. He interned for the comic legend when she was 68 and he was just 19, Negron said in an interview with KCET last year.

After playing bit parts, he made his full-film acting debut in the 1982 soap satire “Young Doctors in Love” and worked steadily in television and film over the next three decades, acquiring memorable roles in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Easy Money” and “The Last Boy Scout,” according to his IMDb.com bio.

Taylor will have three films release posthumous titled, “Love and Something Like It”, “Alienated” and a short titled “H.”