Editors note: Those of you who have been following my Twitter feed know that I have been trying nail this one down practically since the night it happened, with no luck. Seems his close friends found out, and told other close friends, and news of his death leaked out and appeared on a few movie blogs. But there was nothing official. Nothing in the L.A. Times. No death notice that I can find. We have standards at Satellite News, especially when it comes to reporting that somebody is dead, and though the sources I had who were telling me he had died were completely reliable, we don’t go with an obit unless we have an “official” source.
But today, the IMDB added a death date to his page, and that’s good enough for us.

LOS ANGELES — Ross Hagen, actor, voice actor and producer died of cancer at a hospital here May 7. He was 72.
MSTies will of course remember him as Rommel in the movie in episode 202- THE SIDEHACKERS and Sgt. Monte Chapman in the movie in episode 209- THE HELLCATS.

Here’s a great interview with him.