John Russo also stated in the You Caring campaign intro that he befriended the Night of the Living Dead star while they were both in their 20s, because he liked his, “gruff, off-beat, adventurous personality.”
Unfortunately, just months before the late actor passed, George Kosana was in dire financial trouble, with John Russo setting up a You Caring fundraising campaign on his old friend’s behalf.
George Kosana, who made his feature film debut playing Sheriff McClelland in the 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead, has died at the age of 81.
While his untimely demise was reported by a number of outlets today, the actor’s longtime friend John Russo, who co-wrote Night of the Living Dead with George A. Romero, broke the news in a Facebook post yesterday.