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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the R.I.P. dept.

Grant Imahara, Host of 'MythBusters' and 'White Rabbit Project,' Dies at 49:

Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix's White Rabbit Project, has died. He was 49.

Imahara died suddenly following a brain aneurysm, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. "We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family," a representative for Discovery said in a statement on Monday.

An electrical engineer and roboticist by training, he joined Discovery's MythBusters in its third season, replacing Scottie Chapman and was with the show until 2014 when he left with co-hosts Kari Byron and Tory Belleci. The trio would reunite in 2016 for Netflix's White Rabbit Project which lasted for one season. On MythBusters, Imahara used his technical expertise to design and build robots for the show and also operated the computers and electronics needed to test myths.

While part of the Mythbusters team, he sky-dived and drove stunt cars, on film sets he came into contact with some of the most iconic characters in screen history, installing lights onto Star Wars' R2-D2, creating the robot Geoff Peterson for The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and working on the Energizer Bunny.

Also at Washington Post, Variety, Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:47PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:47PM (#1021864)

    He also played Sulu on Star Trek Continues and was a better actor on ST:C than on Mythbusters.

    No I'm not being a smart ass as per "they all look alike" or similar, although I am a huge smart ass, I do honestly mean to the best of my knowledge he played Sulu on that low budget yet high quality Trek reboot of ST:TOS. And he did, I think, a hell of a good job.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:44PM (#1022066)

    He also played the chink dude in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.

  • (Score: 1) by speederaser on Wednesday July 15 2020, @09:48PM (1 child)

    by speederaser (4049) on Wednesday July 15 2020, @09:48PM (#1022115)

    He also played Sulu on Star Trek Continues and was a better actor on ST:C than on Mythbusters. No I'm not being a smart ass as per "they all look alike" or similar, although I am a huge smart ass, I do honestly mean to the best of my knowledge he played Sulu on that low budget yet high quality Trek reboot of ST:TOS. And he did, I think, a hell of a good job.

    You appear to be correct. [wikipedia.org] I'll have to track that down and watch a few episodes.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday July 16 2020, @07:39PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 16 2020, @07:39PM (#1022533)

      Its worth the effort.

      Depressingly, the fan made Continues seems better than corporate Trek.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 15 2020, @10:52PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday July 15 2020, @10:52PM (#1022139) Homepage
    Star Trek Continues was a fan fiction homage. It got the blessing of many of the original crew (and the offspring of Gene R. himself was happy to call it "canon"), but it was *not* a "reboot". In particular as it was set after the end of TOS.
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