Dustin Diamond, the actor best known for portraying Samuel “Screech” Powers on beloved NBC sitcom Saved By the Bell, has died aged 44.
Saved by the Bell ran through 1993 and relaunched into new iterations such as Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
Diamond had been complaining of severe body pain and was given a diagnosis of small-cell carcinoma two days later.
The actor was hospitalised on 12 January, and died in the morning of Monday, 1 February, a representative for the actor confirmed.