Stage and screen stalwart Tom Troupe has died. He was 97. Troupe passed away from natural causes at his Beverly Hills home on Sunday, just five days after his birthday, a family spokesperson announced.

Tom Troupe, a stage and TV actor who appeared in "Star Trek," "Murder, She Wrote" and "Cheers," died Sunday morning at his home in Beverly Hills.

Tom Troupe, a veteran stage and screen actor who appeared in many projects in the late 1990s, including “My Own Private Idaho,” “Star Trek,” “Cagney & Lacey,” and “Mission Impossible,” has died at the age of 97.