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Johnathan Southworth Ritter[1][2] (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor. He was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter.
Ritter's official cause of death was an undetected aortic dissection, when the body's main artery, aka the aorta, tears. However, doctors initially thought the actor was experiencing a...
John Ritter died from an undiagnosed and undetected heart flaw called an aortic dissection. He was just six days from his 55th birthday when he fell ill while rehearsing lines on the...
Ritter died from an undetected flaw in his heart called an aortic dissection in 2003. He was 54 years old at the time of his death. An aortic dissection refers to "an abnormal separation of tissues within the walls of the aorta, the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body," writes WebMD .
Ritter died at 10:48 p.m. on September 11 at the age of 54. In addition to his daughter Stella, Ritter was survived by his second wife, actress Amy Yasbeck (shown above with Ritter), and his three children from his first marriage.
John Ritter suddenly fell ill on set in Burbank, California on September 11, 2003, and died hours later of an aortic dissection. The sitcom star's family believes a simple chest X-ray could have saved his life.
John Ritter, whose portrayal of the bumbling but lovable Jack Tripper helped make the madcap comedy series "Three's Company" a smash hit in the 1970s, died of a heart problem after falling ill...
LOS ANGELES (AP) – John Ritter, whose portrayal of the bumbling but lovable Jack Tripper helped make the madcap comedy series "Three's Company" a smash hit in the 1970s, has died of a heart...
John Ritter, who played the lovably goofy closet heterosexual Jack Tripper in the television comedy series ''Three's Company,'' a smash hit in the 1970's, died on Thursday night in Burbank, Calif....
John Ritter, the Emmy-award winning star who became a household name playing bumbling wannabe-Casanova Jack Tripper on ’70s TV hit Three’s Company, died suddenly from an arterial problem, according...