Didn't a missile strike him and carry him off?
excuse me?
Ed Begley died on April 28, 1970 at the age of 69.
on May 8, 1948, as Ricketts was driving across the railroad tracks at Drake Avenue, just uphill from Cannery Row, on his way to dinner after his day's work, a Del Monte Express (passenger train) hit...
He was an old man, heck he was 87. Old age.