Dale's escape did not involve an actual escape but would involve him changing his identity. Monk finds many clues that suggest that Otto was framed, and so Monk, Natalie, and Marci go to several lumber yards in the area. Additionally, she is under the impression that Leland never uses a gun (forcing Leland to hide his pistol in a desk drawer whenever she visits him at the office). Gail Fleming (Amy Sedaris) is Sharona's younger sister and an actress. The next day, Marci shows Monk how much she loves him, wearing his old pants, serving his drink in his old glass, even showing him a diorama of them based on the season two episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", while singing him a song on her guitar about him. "Actor Stanley Kamel was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday, April 8, by his long time agents and friends, Donna Massetti and Marilyn Szatmary. The police show up, asking if Marci owns a dog named Otto, who apparently attacked and mauled to death Debbie Ringel, the wife of Marci's neighbor John Ringel. He was 65. Kamel has appeared in numerous TV roles over the past three decades, including "The West Wing," "Six Feet Under," "Melrose Place," "The Golden Girls," "Days of Our Lives" and "Murder One. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. The show's main stars included, at some point, Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford. Monk (TV series As revealed in the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Charles has taken three paternity tests at the "request" of his son. In rage, Monk lunges at him and the two engage in a violent brawl, during which Monk repeatedly kicks and punches Nunn before drawing his pistol and demanding to know who hired him. This cynicism transforms into admiration as their relationship develops. However, Stottlemeyer appreciates Disher's abilities and even harbors a degree of affection for him, especially in situations of personal peril. Julie also initially helps Monk out when Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck apparently escapes from police custody while at SF General Hospital undergoing a bypass surgery. What Happened To The Monk Cast? - Screen Rant His family told news agency AFP he died on After leaving, Jack is not heard from for over forty years. Randy seems to harbor crushes on Sharona Fleming and Natalie. Dale remains an important adversary of Adrian's, especially when it is revealed that he was hiding something he knew about Trudy's death. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. He was played by Jon Kyle Hansen in this episode. He confronts Marci about the matter, stating that she is protecting Brad because she knows he killed his ex-wife. To make sure this happened, he had set up arrangements so that the doctor who did his surgery was sent away to Hawaii right after the operation, and a new doctor who had never met Dale, McCabe, or Cannon, would oversee his recovery. Despite the fact that Monk is always shown to be annoyed by Kevin, he is seen crying after Kevin's murder, hinting at a possible friendship they had. In the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies", Julie receives her driver's license. After two other women with the name Julie Teeger are killed, Natalie's Julie becomes the only person with this name within 1,000 miles. In 1993, Trudy was involved in a lawsuit with the financier Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck because she referred to him as the "Genghis Khan of Finance". He died in 1998 in the Kosovo War. Ambrose has both more severe problems than Adrian and more acute powers of observation. Seconds later, it blows up in flames, and Torini jeers: "Abracadabra, Mr. Among other things, she is less tolerable of Monk's eccentricities and less flexible to accommodating his needs than Randy ever was. In the pilot, Randy is not only skeptical of Monk but also seems to find Monk a joke, even calling Monk "the defective detective" to Stottlemeyer. In the novel Mr. Monk Gets Even, Julie becomes a principal character, as she temporarily becomes Monk's assistant while Natalie is temporarily serving on the police force in Summit, New Jersey. Monk ignores his paying case for another case that involves a dead wife, victim of a hit-and-run accident, who was visiting from Nigeria. Harold's first appearance was brief, in a scene in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf" when he and Monk bicker over the arrangement of magazines in Dr. Kroger's waiting room. In "Mr. Monk and the Magician," Monk recalls a time when Kevin had a sore throat, then "talked for two and a half hours about how much it hurt him to talk". Mitch is portrayed by Monk co-producer Doug Nabors, and can be seen in Natalie's pictures in her house and her car. The picture turns out to be doctored, leading to Teddy Mulligan, the seller, knocking Monk unconscious and sending him to a town in Wyoming, in turn causing Monk to uncover the murder of a waitress while forgetting his own name. Rather than recast the role, the writers wrote Dr. Kroger out of the show by having him also die of a heart attack, and cast Hctor Elizondo in the replacement role of Dr. Neven Bell, who is a friend and colleague of Dr. Kroger's, and as such, can sympathize with Monk's feeling of loss. Tennyson mentions (in "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan") that he did not recognize the man who hired him, but remembers that there were six fingers on his right hand. At the end of the episode, she gives Monk a package holding all his stuff she took, saying her new obsession, F. Murray Abraham "wouldn't understand"--"May God have mercy on his soul," Monk tells Natalie. "That woman is as obsessive and compulsive as you are." Natalie is reluctant at first but then gives in. Stottlemeyer resents being forced (frequently by the higher-up characters, such as the mayor, the chiefs, or the commissioner) into calling on Monk's assistance, and he is frequently exasperated by Monk's many quirks. Menu. Monk claims that Biederbeck owns "half the city" of San Francisco and has an option on the other half. BoJack Horseman: Still Broken (2015; animated) [ Herb Kazzaz ]: Dies (off-screen) from an allergic reaction to peanuts, after surviving a car crash with a peanut truck; his death is revealed as Henry Winkler speaks at his funeral. He allegedly abandoned his men and took their supplies, but Natalie does not believe the reports, as revealed by Natalie in "Mr. Monk and the Election. Much of what is known about Mitch is known through the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. Biederbeck sued Trudy and her newspaper for libel after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". It was necessary to have two actors play the role because Ritchotte lives on the West Coast, while the pilot was filmed in Vancouver and seasons two and three in Los Angeles. Before Stottlemeyer can even formally introduce himself, she instantly recognizes Stottlemeyer as a divorcee (replying "I've been in the real estate business for fourteen years and I can smell divorce from a hundred feet away"). Initially, Adrian's reception to his father is icy and uninviting, but the two later reconcile over a road trip, where they suspiciously travel by the longer back roads. Robert Loggia. While very forgiving, even he gets fed up with Monk from time to time, most heavily demonstrated in "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect", when Dr. Kroger returns from vacationing in Costa Rica and sees Monk standing outside his home. At once, Linda confesses plainly about Monk searching her house for evidence, but then she tells him in a nervously hushed voice that Monk made an advance at her and threatened to sleep with her. In "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure", Monk agrees to help Dr. Kroger's son Troy decipher what appears to be a treasure map (actually a map to a dead bank robber's body) in an attempt to once more outdo Harold, who has just given Dr. Kroger a wristwatch. Eventually, Monk, Julie and Stottlemeyer discover that Dale has a girlfriend, a graphic designer named Stella Chaze. Stottlemeyer also looked up Sharona Fleming and hired her as Monk's practical nurse, which helped Monk to recover from a state of near-catatonia caused by Trudy's death. As difficult as it is for Monk to take upon the case of a victim he knows, he accepts it with the determination of seeing to it that Torini is caught. Unknown to Kevin, Torini is secretly trafficking heroin for an Asian drug cartel. Monk eventually discovers that the attacks are the work of T.K. The following is a list of characters of Monk, an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series, created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. Julie begins researching information on Fellows after Natalie returns to San Francisco to re-take her position as Monk's assistant. In "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy", Sharona tells him of her less than reputable past. In the season seven episode "Mr. Monk is Underwater", where he is introduced, he asks for Monk's help with the murder of Lieutenant Commander Jason Pierce while serving aboard USS Seattle, a Los Angeles-class submarine. She has a sister. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. Ambrose writes owner's manuals for many different consumer products in multiple languages which he taught himself (seven and a half, as of "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies"; the half is for his ongoing study of Mandarin Chinese). This is nearly revealed by playboy Dexter Larsen if Monk had persisted in his current homicide investigation. In "Earthquake" she remarks to Sharona that she thinks Sharona copies her by moving to San Francisco, buying the same purse, etc. As Monk and Natalie observe at Kevin's wake, this trait actually appears to be genetic. #inline-recirc-item--id-9e9fe31c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-9e9fe31c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { During a luau-themed sendoff party at the police station, Stottlemeyer and Linda dance with each other. By the beginning of the penultimate season seven episode, "Mr. Monk and the Magician," Kevin is working as an accountant for professional magician, mentor, and 'supposedly' close friend, Karl Torini (Steve Valentine). Karen first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man", where she begs Leland to investigate the death of Miles Holling, the oldest man in the world. According to "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", Randy was born in San Diego. 'Monk' Star Jason Gray-Stanford Shares Heart Transplant Story MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo found dead at 46 Trending News Jackass star and TNA wrestler Stevie Lee has died at the age of 54. Both Monk and Harold are ultimately kidnapped by Xavier Danko, the real killer, and thrown into the trunk of his car together, where they both break down with claustrophobia and finally become friends: Harold admits that he has greatly exaggerated his own progress to goad Adrian, while Adrian admits that he envies Harold's relative success in going on with his life despite his many fears. Although he denied having an uncle in the season 3 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", in the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk Visits a Farm", Randy inherits his uncle's farm after Harvey Disher supposedly commits suicide. In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", he accompanies Monk on a trip to Los Angeles when Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison, asks Monk to investigate possible cheating on a game show that he produces. During the season six finale ("Mr. Monk Is on the Run"), Adrian finds the six-fingered man, named Frank Nunn, but unfortunately, he is shot and killed by John Rollins, a corrupt Angel County sheriff recruited by Dale in a plot to incriminate Adrian. Monk telephones Biederbeck from Germany when he suspects that one of Dr. Kroger's colleagues, a psychiatrist with a six-fingered hand named Dr. Martin Rahner, is the man who killed Trudy. However, Monk determines that it was a murder and uses the body to solve the case. In Adrian's words, Trudy "enjoyed poetry, was often barefoot, and kept every promise she ever made". Monk knows that Biederbeck would not kill anyone over such a petty sum. Discovering that Trudy was the true target, Adrian is seen to be visibly affected by this piece of news. In the episode "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man", Leland marries T.K. 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In "Mr. Monk Is On the Run", when Monk is framed for murder by corrupt sheriff John Rollins, Stottlemeyer proves his loyalty to Monk by helping him fake his own death, risking his own career and freedom. She then begs Monk to take the case, which he eventually does, though reluctantly. Cheryl Fleming (Betty Buckley) is Sharona's and Gail's mother. Harold J. Krenshaw (Tim Bagley) is another patient of Dr. Kroger and later Dr. Bell who also suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, her life as a former Vice cop does give Devlin some advantages that Randy does not have. It is mentioned in "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine" that Stottlemeyer was Monk's fourth partner on the force, and this came two weeks after Monk made detective (Monk says that his first three partners were good enough guys but that their professional chemistry did not work). The episode gives Julie an integral role. Dale was unable to win the lawsuit, but the Monks were forced to sell their house paying for their lawyer. After finding evidence to suggest otherwise, Monk discovers that she is still alive. Marci even offers to be Monk's personal assistant for free, which would relieve him of having to write a paycheck. Then, Monk learns that, in fact, Rickover had saved the baby girl who is now a 26-year-old movie critic named Molly with whom he connects and grows to love. Police told The Las Vegas Review Journal that part-time actor Aaron Biederbeck smugly refuses to confirm or deny Monk's suspicions, but later Monk proves that the doctor is not Trudy's killer. He also saves the two from being drowned by Commander Nathan Whitaker, the person who killed Pierce. After Brad is arrested, Marci is released from jail. To find the truth, Leland sends Monk and Natalie to follow Karen. He is arrested and placed in jail because he shoved a cop and resisted arrest. Stanley Kamel, who played Adrian Monk's long-suffering psychiatrist on the TV detective show "Monk," has died. He was 65. Kamel was found dead of a heart attack in his Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday by his agents, publicist Cynthia Snyder said in a statement. She appears in many episodes of the show, usually in minor roles. He offers Monk a deal: find the killer and Biederbeck will share what he knows about Trudy's murder. Mitch is introduced in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". In the season 6 episode "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend", when Natalie tells Randy that she and Monk have news, he guesses that she wants to say she is in love with him, leaving Natalie in a dumbstruck and annoyed state. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Harold again plays a very prominent role, as he is with Monk and Dr. Kroger when they find the body of Dr. Kroger's cleaning lady Teresa Mueller in Dr. Kroger's office. Stella had staged the truck crash, as Monk suspected, then infiltrated the hospital, but she did not take Dale out of the hospital. In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage," Monk recalls to Natalie a weekend where Leland went on a hunting trip, while Karen stayed behind to organize a gun control rally. At one point during the investigation, Linda drops by Monk and Natalie's new office while they are talking with Stottlemeyer and Disher. Afterwards, in an extraordinary gesture, Harold voluntarily transfers to another psychiatrist, to let Monk's "group sessions" with Dr. Bell be individual sessions after all. While doing Torini's books, Kevin notices that the airlines are probably overcharging Torini, as for whatever reason, his receipts show that his equipment seems to weigh more when he comes back to the United States than it does when he leaves. Monk actor Stanley Kamel dies The Hollywood Reporter Stanley Kamel, who played Adrian Monk's long-suffering psychiatrist on the TV detective show "Monk," has died. In "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", it is revealed that he has a wife, Madeline, and a rebellious adolescent son, Troy, who denies that he is their child and has been arrested by Randy on more than one previous occasion. Dr. Charles Kroger (played by Stanley Kamel) is Monk's psychiatrist for the first six seasons. Monk finds a form for a rental truck on a table in the front hallway, and a barrel cleaner and bottle of gun oil stashed in Linda's closet, but Linda comes home while he is searching, having been tipped off, and she attempts to seduce Monk. He had a lead role in the '90s hit movie "Single White Female" and in the TV movie "The Shining." Natalie overhears a woman (in "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk") who looks like Trudy say that she faked her own death to protect Adrian. Jack Jr. meets Adrian after he is arrested and imprisoned for attempting to sell cars that are not his own. Judge Ethan Rickover (Craig T. Nelson) is a respected former college professor turned state judge. Jack also makes an appearance (albeit an unseen one) in the season four episode, "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" at Ambrose's door. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. Trevor also reappears in the novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, having been framed for murder by the Los Angeles Police Department's private consultant Ian Ludlow, who frames five other people in addition to Natalie and Sharona for the murders he commits so that he can write his novels and meet his deadlines. As Stottlemeyer mentions in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival", when Monk was promoted to detective, he was partnered with Stottlemeyer and right away, showed off his amazing abilities when he proved that a prostitute's apparent suicide was murder. After they are rescued, it becomes clear that Troy has a better relationship with his father, and is planning to follow his father and study psychology in college. The episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies" and the novel Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop establish that Mitch taught Natalie how to shoot a gun, though Natalie's firearms skill are called into question in "Mr. Monk on Wheels". Lieutenant Commander Mitch Teeger (197198) is Natalie's late husband and Julie's father, who was a fighter pilot in the United States Navy. During the radio broadcast, Kevin calls in as a fan to compliment Hudson, but he actually called in just to support Monk. However, any chance of figuring out where Dale is through her ends when she tries to kill the three by suicide-bombing her house (the three survive, though Stottlemeyer breaks his right arm when the resulting fireball throws him through the air and he lands the wrong way). In "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect", he shows up at Sharona's house for Benjy's birthday, seemingly a "different man." In the first episode of season five, "Mr. Monk and the Actor", Monk wants to take up the entire week with therapy, but Dr. Kroger says he does not like working on the weekends so he can spend time with family. In "Mr. Monk Gets Fired", Karen is seen filming a documentary of life in the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Division, including many moments of Commissioner Brooks' anger and Paul Harley's arrest. After his mother died, he started bingeing. Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962[1] to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. From the time of Trudy's death until the end of season two, Monk believes all along that he was the intended target, with Trudy being an innocent victim. 12 Actors Who Passed Away While Their Shows Were Still It was changed to Disher for the rest of the series. Before Nunn can answer, he is shot dead by a corrupt local sheriff, John Rollins. In his first and second appearances, he weighs about 800 pounds (363 kilograms) and is unable to leave his bed. Adrian does not know what this may mean until he mentions this to Dr. Bell. In this episode, she has started a website about Monk, and we see her digitally replacing Natalie's head with her own. List of Monk characters - Wikipedia The novel Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant reveals that Stottlemeyer's father was a bartender named Hamish. Eventually, by Mr. Monk Gets Even, she moves her business to San Francisco. A note is also left behind which reads: "To Force Heaven Mars Shall Have A New Angel". In the first season, he is played by Adam Arkin, in the second by Tim Curry, and in the sixth by Ray Porter, all of them wearing fat suits. [5] She was on an errand to get cough medicine for Adrian's brother, Ambrose. In the same scene, Monk is also forced to endure a blatant insult to Kevin's memory when Torini writes down a phony confession that he is responsible for Kevin's murder on a piece of paper, which he folds and places in Monk's hand. Since the events of "Mr. Monk Is on the Run", all of Dale's assets have been tied up in various lawsuits, thus forcing the state of California to front the bill for his medical costs. A CPA, he has two sisters, can recall every time he has eaten an egg salad sandwich in his life (eight altogether), and once worked for two non-consecutive summers at a coffee shop in Aspen, Colorado. ", a statement that has more truth to it than Stottlemeyer realizes. The affair resulted in Trudy becoming pregnant with his child. However, due to the recent fiscal crisis, the state has no money left to pay for Dale's medical treatment. However, as the days count down until their wedding, someone starts making threats against Leland and T.K., including ransacking his house, blowing up his car, making threatening phone calls to T.K., and setting off a bomb at the wedding rehearsal. At first, she confesses to murdering Brad's ex-wife, and Monk is convinced. Coincidentally, Nash is earlier questioned by Monk and Stottlemeyer when they got the call that Trudy had been killed. He is a sixth-grader and wants to be a writer in "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation", in which he witnesses cleaning maids murdering one of their own while pulling off an insider trading scheme. Unbeknownst to him, the day before Trudy was killed, she made a video message to Adrian, explaining how Rickover wanted to meet her in that parking garage, and also mentioning the secret affair. Twelve years later, in 2009, Rickover has come far in his career, having been recently nominated for the California Supreme Court. She calls Leland saying that Jared has skipped school and most likely has gone to a rock concert where Kris Kedder is performing, which leads Leland, Monk, and Natalie to go to the San Francisco Band Jam. The body is eventually found, with both Monk and the police present at the scene, and Rickover confesses to the murders of Wendy Stroud and Trudy. The day of the operation, Monk, Julie and Stottlemeyer meet the motorcade bringing Dale to San Francisco General Hospital. Dale consents to undergo a gastric bypass operation so that he can be integrated into the regular prison system. Benjy and his mother are mentioned in "Mr. Monk Is on the Run (Part Two)", having sent flowers for the "deceased" Monk and flying in to attend his "funeral". In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", a younger Trudy is portrayed in a flashback by Lindy Newton. Jack goes to Adrian in hopes that Adrian can clear his name. Natalie tries to help convince him, but Stottlemeyer refuses to listen to another word. Leland and Karen have recurring marital problems and have separated twice. Sure enough, when Monk and the others go to the hospital and pull back "McCabe's" curtain, they find Dale, who is arrested and stopped, presumably for good now. [2] Trudy and Adrian met during his senior year at UC Berkeley (episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion"). While skateboarding and ditching school with his friends Ridley and Pez, one of their skateboards hits the side of a parked car. Mar 6, 2019, 8:49 AM PST. She is introduced in Mr. Monk on Patrol, where she runs a store in Summit called Poop, which (as the store's name suggests) sells dung and other objects made from fecal material. The series was produced by Eventually, Monk finds an article, dated the same day that Trudy's illegitimate child was born, detailing how Wendy Stroud saved a child. Most of Dr. Kroger's scenes help move Monk's character forward. The actor was on set when he felt like he had the flu. In the series finale, "Mr. Monk and the End," Randy accepts a job as Chief of Police in the town of Summit in Sharona's native New Jersey, stating that he and Sharona are moving in together. At John Ringel's lumberyard, they find clues that explain Otto's day-long disappearance of about two weeks earlier, the simple explanation being that Ringel made a pruning-type device that could make dog tooth marks on his wife's body after he murdered her. Adrian was only eight years old, and this abandonment is seemingly the catalyst for both his and Ambrose's psychological illnesses. Also inherent in this hostility is a certain degree of jealousy; Stottlemeyer appears only too aware that he is not nearly the detective that Monk is. In the middle of the meeting, Monk intercepts an email from one of Julie's friends, and responds to it. Cast Seeing Harold so happy, Monk cannot concentrate on the case, so he decides to ignore the risks, goes to Dr. Climan and comes out acting like a six-year-old. Several clues point to him, but his involvement is thought to be impossible because he is incapable of leaving his bedroom. While Stottlemeyer is initially concerned that Trudy's name would upset Monk, Monk is enthused, saying that everyone should have a Trudy in their life. In the season seven episode "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized", Harold has tried out hypnotic regression therapy with Dr. Lawrence Climan (Richard Schiff) which at first seems to cure him of his OCD. However, Leland's efforts to find Jared are sidetracked when roadie Greg "Stork" Murray turns up dead in a port-a-potty, discovered by Monk and Natalie. It is later revealed that the reason he was drawn to her is that she received a cornea transplant from an organ donor, who turned out to be Trudy. Ambrose Monk, played by John Turturro, is Adrian's older agoraphobic brother. Karen is mentioned, but does not appear, in "Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert". In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Big Game", Julie and her friends on the high school basketball team hire Monk to investigate the death of their basketball coach, Lynn Hayden, after she is found electrocuted and killed in the locker room. March 11, 2005, 10:47 AM PST / Source: The Associated Press. Monk His feelings towards Monk change from the pilot episode of the series. He often takes great pleasure in "getting" other people before they get him, especially Monk. Kazarinski poisons Monk's wipes with a ricin-based synthetic poison that will kill him in a period of two or three days. He is played by Kane Ritchotte in the pilot, season two, and the first half of season three, and by Max Morrow in the rest of season one. Due to her obsession with Monk, Marci is well-educated on just about every aspect of Monk's life and career. In "Mr. Monk Makes a Friend", Monk apparently makes a friend out of Hal Tucker, who is revealed later to have just been using him, but Stottlemeyer saves him, identifying Monk as his friend when he stops Hal. In "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", it is implied that he has lived in the Bay Area since at least the 1970s; when he is trying to get information from reunion guests about a homicide investigation, he is booed off the stage when the projectionist displays some embarrassing pictures of him wearing riot gear and attacking protesters at an anti-nuclear warfare demonstration at UC Berkeley.