Since Sharona is working as a nurse, Benjy is living with her sister Gail. It fails, as Monk is next seen bolting of the house, bug-eyed, jumps into Natalie's car, and they quickly take off. In the two-part episode "Mr. Monk Is on the Run", Monk is framed for the murder of Frank Nunn, the six-fingered man who hired Tennyson. He has a romantic interest in Natalie Teeger, Adrian's second assistant. Although Jack Sr. is portrayed as eccentric, unpleasant, and erratic, he is also apparently quite intelligent, possibly implying that Ambrose and Adrian inherited at least some of their prodigious mental abilities from their father. Before Stottlemeyer can even formally introduce himself, she instantly recognizes Stottlemeyer as a divorcee (replying "I've been in the real estate business for fourteen years and I can smell divorce from a hundred feet away"). During the first few novels, Julie's role is minimal, but she occasionally, knowingly or not, gives Monk crucial information that is key to solving a murder case. Jack Jr. makes repeated efforts to ingratiate himself to his older half-brother by stammering and sniveling helplessly, even going so far as to stage a phony phone call from his girlfriend who pretends to be his mother, who bawls sappily, begging Adrian to help her little "Jackie". At the time Trudy was murdered, Stottlemeyer reluctantly suspended Monk from duty, though the two remained friends. Rickover finds out about this when Stottlemeyer comes over to his house to sign a warrant to search Kazarinski's premises. Since the events of "Mr. Monk Is on the Run", all of Dale's assets have been tied up in various lawsuits, thus forcing the state of California to front the bill for his medical costs. So he can search it, he has Natalie lure Linda away from her house on the pretense of looking at an apartment, while he searches it. He concludes that the dead body is actually that of Jason McCabe, one of the other two patients operated on the day Dale's surgery was performed. However, she also has obsessive-compulsive disorder and takes a liking to Monk after a couple of encounters. In the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", it is presumed that Mitch also taught Natalie how to use Morse code. However, due to the recent fiscal crisis, the state has no money left to pay for Dale's medical treatment. Hence, starting with Cheryl Fleming (Betty Buckley) is Sharona's and Gail's mother. WebStanley Kamel, who portrayed Monk's therapist, Dr. Charles Kroger, died in April 2008 during the production hiatus in between seasons six and seven. Monk opens the door to the dressing room minutes later to find Kevin's dead body. Aside from his ridiculous theories, which often defy the laws of physics (for instance, astral projection), he is competent within his own range of abilities. "Karen" is revealed to be the girlfriend of sports agent Rob Sherman, who killed his wife and career burglar Dewey Jordan in a staged break-in. Listed here are characters that exclusively appear in the novels and make multiple appearances: Joseph "Joe" Cochran: an SFFD firefighter to whom Natalie becomes attracted in a few of the novels. In "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend", Stottlemeyer's duties and the fact that Linda has moved uptown to Richmond means that she can only talk to him at 6:30p.m. each night on webcam dates. They ultimately find that Karen is not seeing someone, as first suspected, but is meeting with a divorce lawyer. He topped out at 927 pounds about 11 years before the events of the episode and has been bedridden ever since. During a luau-themed sendoff party at the police station, Stottlemeyer and Linda dance with each other. Stroud says she will reveal the truth about his and Trudy's illegitimate child, which would ruin his confirmation chances. When her husband Douglas died, she was left to raise her daughters alone. Afterwards, Devlin poses as Corinne as part of the second sting, which is to draw Ramirez out of hiding. This implies that at one point Jared had to repeat a grade. After leaving, Jack is not heard from for over forty years. 6 Actors From Monk Who Have Sadly Died Monk is a American comedy drama detective mystery television show staring Tony Shalhoub as detective Monk. In Today's video we'll be taking a look at some of the cast members who have sadly died. He also says that he thinks his new therapist is better than Monk's. By his third appearance in "Mr. Monk Is on the Run (Part Two)", he has lost just enough weight to get around in a wheelchair. Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962[1] to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. display: none; According to "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", Randy was born in San Diego. In real life, Emmy Clarke studied communication and media studies at Fordham University. Stanley Kamel succumbed to heart failure on April 8, 2008. This is confirmed when Monk and Natalie time the route on a motorcycle and it takes them an hour to travel the route. Hence, starting with season seven, Monk gets a new therapist, Dr. Neven Bell, who remained for the final two seasons. In the same scene, Monk is also forced to endure a blatant insult to Kevin's memory when Torini writes down a phony confession that he is responsible for Kevin's murder on a piece of paper, which he folds and places in Monk's hand. Both Monk and Harold are ultimately kidnapped by Xavier Danko, the real killer, and thrown into the trunk of his car together, where they both break down with claustrophobia and finally become friends: Harold admits that he has greatly exaggerated his own progress to goad Adrian, while Adrian admits that he envies Harold's relative success in going on with his life despite his many fears. In the season eight episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona", Sharona mentions that Benjy is making plans to attend college, and he plans on using money from her lawsuit against a country club for the death of her uncle, Howard Fleming. It is mentioned in Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, and elaborated upon in Mr. Monk is Miserable, that Natalie and Mitch eloped to Paris. Before he leaves, however, Linda off-handedly remarks: "What's a girl gotta do to get your attention? The end credits to the first episode aired after Kamel's death, "Mr. Monk Buys a House," begin with a dedication to Kamel's memory. Adrian (in "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night") sees a Brazilian woman named Maria Cordova, whom he chases for several blocks for no apparent reason. Ambrose writes owner's manuals for many different consumer products in multiple languages which he taught himself (seven and a half, as of "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies"; the half is for his ongoing study of Mandarin Chinese). Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the The episode also establishes that their marriage is not necessarily stable, to such an extent that when Randy informs Leland that Karen wants to see him, Leland panics and has Randy keep her occupied while he gets his office reorganized (hanging a dreamcatcher from his lamp, hiding some of his personal junk, and installing a waterfall (that he fills with coffee). In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", a younger Trudy is portrayed in a flashback by Lindy Newton. Unknown to Kevin, Torini is secretly trafficking heroin for an Asian drug cartel. Adrian begins to believe this might be true, but in the end, it turns out that this woman is an actress who has attempted to pass herself off as the real Trudy in order to get the key to Trudy's old storage unit.[7]. After Torini's arrest, Monk and Natalie watch a video will that Kevin had made, and despite his tendency to ramble about various things, Monk lets the video play. He first appears in the novel Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse when Monk and Natalie are hired by Julie to investigate the death of Joe's pet Dalmatian, a dog named Sparky, killed while Joe and his crew are away responding to a fatal house fire. Tennyson mentions (in "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan") that he did not recognize the man who hired him, but remembers that there were six fingers on his right hand. This novel reveals that Ambrose wrote the instruction manual for the Triax tracking device that is utilized by alleged Ponzi schemer Bob Sebes, whom Adrian suspects as having killed three government witnesses about to testify against him for their parts in the scheme. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Dr. Kroger finds his cleaning lady Teresa Mueller stabbed and killed in his office. Unknown to Monk, Nunn is also a pawn in a related scheme to frame him for murder and incapacitate him. With Molly filling the void that Trudy's death left in his life, Monk initially decides to retire from detective work. The song is also featured in the season 8 episode "Mr. Monk Goes Camping" as the ringtone on Randy's cell phone. It is revealed in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Election" that Dr. Kroger is married, had a first wife, has children, and is Jewish. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Joe later appears in Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants when he approaches Natalie, asking Monk to investigate the theft of some firefighting equipment from his firehouse, including a Jaws of Life. Another running gag in the series is the ceremonial way in which he delivers news to Stottlemeyer, asking him to guess what it is or sit down for it; this method mostly annoys others who would like him to get to the point. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randy Disher, is a source of much comedic strife. After Monk finds that prison librarian Sylvia Fairborn killed Kaspo, Dale reveals that Trudy was, contrary to Monk's belief, the intended victim of the car bomb. After checking into their hotel in Reno, Nevada, Torini drives back to the Magic Castle Theater and sneaks in posing as a repairman. Following the death of Luke Perry earlier this week, "Riverdale" has shut down production, and it's unknown how the show will proceed without him from here. Wires get crossed, resulting in the SWAT team storming a slumber party of innocent teens, including Julie. She is eventually adopted by a family and becomes a movie critic for the fictional East Bay Chronicle. As a result, he is clueless in giving Benjy a pep talk about baseball in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame", as Benjy has to show him how to hold a bat. She has a sister. Similarly, Dr. Kroger also (usually unintentionally) helps Monk find something that solves his current case. The investigation eventually leads them to a local doctor named Jay Bennett (Fred Weller), who had hit Linda's car while driving from the marina after killing his girlfriend Anna Pollard out in the bay. Cate Cameron/The CW. Unaware of the murder plot, Harold plays along with the charade because he loves the public attention, getting a golden opportunity to infuriate Monk, and gaining new respect and admiration from his own son, Jimmy. He offers Monk a deal: find the killer and Biederbeck will share what he knows about Trudy's murder. In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", he accompanies Monk on a trip to Los Angeles when Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison, asks Monk to investigate possible cheating on a game show that he produces. She works for a magazine similar to Consumer Reports and is covering the debut of the new LaserVac self-cleaning vacuum. Karen Stottlemeyer (Glenne Headly) is Leland's environmentally conscious wife during the first four seasons and the mother of their two children, Jared and Max. At John Ringel's lumberyard, they find clues that explain Otto's day-long disappearance of about two weeks earlier, the simple explanation being that Ringel made a pruning-type device that could make dog tooth marks on his wife's body after he murdered her. Captain Leland Francis Stottlemeyer, portrayed by Ted Levine, is a captain of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD)'s homicide detail, and a longtime and long-suffering friend of main protagonist Adrian Monk from their days on the force together, when Stottlemeyer served as Monk's fourth partner and later as watch commander. Linda is arrested, and Stottlemeyer is left asking himself if the relationship was real or merely something that she had planned from the beginning so she could have a perfect alibi for the murder. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. Marci even offers to be Monk's personal assistant for free, which would relieve him of having to write a paycheck. However, her life as a former Vice cop does give Devlin some advantages that Randy does not have. "Actor Stanley Kamel was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday, April 8, by his long time agents and friends, Donna Massetti and Marilyn Szatmary. Although Monk is mostly annoyed by her, he becomes momentarily flattered when Marci starts acting as his buffer in relation to his personal quirks and social dealings with people. 's friend and maid of honor, Stephanie Briggs, who was trying to recover a gun she had used earlier that week to kill fellow ecoterrorist Martin Kettering. However, Monk discovers that the cleaning lady was killed by drug trafficker Francis Merrigan, who also owns an office in Dr. Kroger's building. Though Monk is initially skeptical, Dr. Bell wins his confidence through several small gestures: he begins the appointment at the exact second it is scheduled, supplies Monk with his favorite bottled water, Sierra Springs, wipes during their introductory handshake, and displays a painting in his office which previously belonged to the late Dr. Kroger. Monk must reconcile reality with his fan-boy feelings toward an actress who starred as a child in a Brady Bunch-style sitcom in his youth after an attempt on her life. In Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, Natalie mentions that she and Monk actually have a lot in common. When Monk is having lunch at an outdoor cafe with Lenny Barlowe and Tommy G., a rollerblading Harold calls out to "Adrian". Molly Evans (Alona Tal) is the illegitimate daughter that Trudy had in her affair with Rickover. When she shows up at Monk's apartment the next day, Natalie is able to shoo Marci out. He is also revealed to be an amateur magician himself. Adrian feels differently, believing his father will never return. In "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", he appears in a documentary about Adrian and says his brother held the family together after Jack Monk left them. Over the course of the novel, Benjy develops a friendship with Julie Teeger. Early life In the season seven episode "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized", Harold has tried out hypnotic regression therapy with Dr. Lawrence Climan (Richard Schiff) which at first seems to cure him of his OCD. The novel serves to allow Adrian to help Ambrose get over his agoraphobia. In "Mr. Monk Makes a Friend", Monk apparently makes a friend out of Hal Tucker, who is revealed later to have just been using him, but Stottlemeyer saves him, identifying Monk as his friend when he stops Hal. Natalie brings this up in Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop when holding crooked Intertect CEO Nick Slade up at gunpoint. During a coughing fit brought on by the poisoned wipes, Monk decides not to kill Rickover and puts the gun down on the sundial in Rickover's yard, which Rickover then picks up and holds to his own head, yelling "You take care of her!," before pulling the trigger. Afterwards, in an extraordinary gesture, Harold voluntarily transfers to another psychiatrist, to let Monk's "group sessions" with Dr. Bell be individual sessions after all. During a moment alone with Monk, Tennyson asks for his forgiveness. While trying to deal with the investigation into the murder of wanted ecoterrorist Martin Kettering, Leland finds himself in trouble when someone starts making threats against him and T.K. In Philadelphia, one of Randy's cases was Darlene Coolidge, a black widow who murders her husbands. While skateboarding and ditching school with his friends Ridley and Pez, one of their skateboards hits the side of a parked car. Despite sharing the same disorder, Monk and Harold are constantly at odds, mostly over which of them is liked better by Dr. Kroger or Dr. Bell, or which of them have made more progress in overcoming their various problems. She then begs Monk to take the case, which he eventually does, though reluctantly. ", a statement that has more truth to it than Stottlemeyer realizes. Although he denied having an uncle in the season 3 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", in the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk Visits a Farm", Randy inherits his uncle's farm after Harvey Disher supposedly commits suicide. Linda and Stottlemeyer continue to see one another, but their dates are often interrupted, postponed, or canceled as a result of Stottlemeyer's duties. However, their father shows up at Ambrose's doorstep to leave a note. As difficult as it is for Monk to take upon the case of a victim he knows, he accepts it with the determination of seeing to it that Torini is caught. The series was produced by When they go to apologize to Tony Gamelobo, the driver, they find him dead from a heart attack, and find a map in the back of his car plus satchels from a bank that was recently robbed. Dr. Charles Kroger (played by Stanley Kamel) is Monk's psychiatrist for the first six seasons. Frank Nunn shows no remorse. Karen first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man", where she begs Leland to investigate the death of Miles Holling, the oldest man in the world. Benjy reassures her that he can handle it. However, Monk determines that it was a murder and uses the body to solve the case. Monk eventually discovers that the attacks are the work of T.K. Panicking, Rickover hires a different professional hit man, Joey Kazarinski, to kill Dr. Nash. When Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer, and Disher visit Cassie Drake's house and Stottlemeyer and Disher start tapping messages to each other in Morse code on the door, Natalie chastises them, hinting that Mitch taught her Morse code. However, Monk thinks that Howard's death was foul play, irritating cash-strapped Sharona. Kevin is mentioned briefly in the season four episode "Mr. Monk Gets Drunk", and while he does not make a personal appearance in the story, it is revealed that Monk entrusted Kevin to pick up his mail for him while he and Natalie drove out to Napa Valley to visit his and Trudy's honeymoon retreat. Dale plays an important part of the second of two intertwined plotlines in the novel Mr. Monk Gets Even, released in late 2012. In April 2008, Stanley Kamel died of a heart attack during a production hiatus between seasons 6 and 7. She left to remarry her ex-husband in the middle of season three. However, she reappears in "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", interviewed in a television show, reverting once again to her obsession with Monk. Even though Ambrose's last television appearance was in 2008, he continued to appear in the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. Harold makes a brief cameo appearance in "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", for a small interview on a television special commemorating Monk's solving of his 100th case, which Harold derides. Dr. Neven Bell (portrayed by Hctor Elizondo) becomes Monk's therapist in the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", replacing Dr. Kroger. How 11 TV shows dealt with the death of a main cast member. Dr. Bell also uses his past baseball experiences when talking with Monk in "Mr. Monk Takes the Stand". Ambrose is also shown to have learned Pig Latin and the Dratch constructed language of Beyond Earth. Several clues point to him, but his involvement is thought to be impossible because he is incapable of leaving his bedroom. However, he does remember that the man had six fingers on his right hand. Marci first appears in "Mr. Monk and the TV Star" as a fan of Brad Terry, the star of the crime drama television series Crime Lab S.F.. As Monk and Sharona are first investigating the murder of Brad Terry's ex-wife Susan Malloy, Marci hands an envelope to Sharona, saying that it is a petition to get the old theme song back, since quite a lot of people hate the new theme song of Crime Lab S.F. Everyone traces the sound of the music downstairs to an impounded rental truck that was towed from Linda's street the day after the murder. He has an inmate as his personal servant, luxurious furniture, and a TV but no cell window. is a parody of the controversy around the replacement of the original instrumental theme song for Monk with "It's a Jungle Out There".). He greatly respects his brother's ability to cope with the outside world. The following is a list of characters of Monk, an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series, created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Big Game", Julie and her friends on the high school basketball team hire Monk to investigate the death of their basketball coach, Lynn Hayden, after she is found electrocuted and killed in the locker room. Robert Loggia. Later, as Linda Fusco bids for Stottlemeyer at the San Francisco Police Department's Bachelor Auction, Marci bids for Monk, resulting in a bidding match between her and Natalie that Marci wins after Natalie runs out of money. Rickover hid the baby from Trudy by claiming that she died nine minutes after birth. He died in 1998 in the Kosovo War. As a result, later in the story, upon learning that Monk's consultancy contract has been ripped up, Sharona takes her anger out on Stottlemeyer, accusing him of using the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk (and her) loose as a result of Braddock attacking his abilities. His family told news agency AFP he died on Molly appeared only in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part II". Coincidentally, Nash is earlier questioned by Monk and Stottlemeyer when they got the call that Trudy had been killed. Rickover first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part I" and later in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part II". The choice of Mitch as the first name of Natalie's late husband is a possible in-joke reference to the 1998 film Dirty Work; in that film, Traylor Howard plays the love interest of protagonist Mitch Weaver. Later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever", when Monk confides how he loathes Natalie for getting more attention than him, Dr. Bell is forced to admit to being a diva after writing an unsuccessful book on body language. While Natalie's sexual attraction to Joe is re-sparked, Monk discovers that the person responsible for the theft was responsible for killing a local shoe salesman named Ronald Webster. Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming is Sharona's son. The two butt heads constantly, even to the point that when two of their other group members are killed under mysterious circumstances, Harold accuses Monk of being the killer. In the novel Mr. Monk is Miserable, "I Don't Need a Badge" has become a cult phenomenon in Paris. Later, Vicki kills the accomplice by stabbing him with a cream soda bottle while he is making the store's night deposit. Jason In "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan", Warrick Tennyson tells Monk that he was hired to build the bomb which killed Trudy, by a six-fingered man. By the beginning of the penultimate season seven episode, "Mr. Monk and the Magician," Kevin is working as an accountant for professional magician, mentor, and 'supposedly' close friend, Karl Torini (Steve Valentine). Initially, Adrian's reception to his father is icy and uninviting, but the two later reconcile over a road trip, where they suspiciously travel by the longer back roads. Vicki then tries killing Kevin by stopping their car at a certain point in the road and drugging him - which happens to be on a grade crossing right as the lights begin to flash and the gates begin to lower. In his first and second appearances, he weighs about 800 pounds (363 kilograms) and is unable to leave his bed. 6 Actors From Monk Who Have Sadly Died Monk is a American comedy drama detective mystery television show staring Tony Shal Show more Tony Shalhoub Dr. Kroger instructs the cab driver to keep driving and keeps his head low to avoid Monk. He was portrayed by Cameron Cush in this episode. Among other things, she is less tolerable of Monk's eccentricities and less flexible to accommodating his needs than Randy ever was. In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage," Monk explains to Natalie that the couple has practically nothing in common (case in point: he recalls one weekend when Leland went on a hunting trip, while Karen stayed behind to organize a rally for stronger gun control). After a few tense moments, he throws the ball to Leland, and Randy arrests Kedder. In "Mr. Monk Is On the Run", when Monk is framed for murder by corrupt sheriff John Rollins, Stottlemeyer proves his loyalty to Monk by helping him fake his own death, risking his own career and freedom. Benjy and his mother are mentioned in "Mr. Monk Is on the Run (Part Two)", having sent flowers for the "deceased" Monk and flying in to attend his "funeral". Monk finds many clues that suggest that Otto was framed, and so Monk, Natalie, and Marci go to several lumber yards in the area. Kevin first appears in "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", where he wins a $43 million lottery, although his "girlfriend" Vicki Salinas (Nicole DeHuff), a clerk at the nearby Stop-N-Go convenience store, tries to hide it from him with the objective of eventually getting it all. In the episode "Mr. Monk is the Best Man", she is proposed to by Stottlemeyer after they have been dating for six months. He appears in the episodes "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect" and "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf". By a strange coincidence, Monk says the exact line to actress Christine Rapp (of The Cooper Clan) in "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show". display: none; He is a sixth-grader and wants to be a writer in "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation", in which he witnesses cleaning maids murdering one of their own while pulling off an insider trading scheme. Her second appearance is in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater". In the middle of the meeting, Monk intercepts an email from one of Julie's friends, and responds to it. The company wrote Since the doctor was giving a lecture at Berkeley around the same time that Trudy was killed, thanks to a grant from one of Biederbeck's foundations, Monk suspects Rahner of being the killer. giant skeletons found, tennessee fishing report, mexican non material culture,