Very sad news today folks; it was reported that "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, WWE legend and star of John Carpenter's classic film THEY LIVE, has passed away after suffering a heart attack in his home. He was only 61 years old, far too young. John Carpenter and Keith David, who starred alongside Piper in THEY LIVE, expressed their condolences on Twitter:
I'll be honest with you, my experience with Roddy Piper begins and ends with THEY LIVE, but that mere hour and a half of cinema was more than enough to cement him in my mind forever. Filled to the brim with immensely quotable lines as well as some genuinely great sequences of ass-kicking, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper only needed that one film to count me as a fan. You will be missed.