Mark Blum, actor from Broadway, film and TV, dies from complications from coronavirus

Stage, movie and TV character actor Mark Blum,who had roles in the films Desperately Seeking SusanandCrocodile Dundee, has died fromcomplications from the coronavirus. He was 69.

An executive with the labour union SAG-AFTRA and the off-Broadway theatre company Playwrights Horizons announced the death Thursday.

Blum's recent Broadway credits included The Assembled Parties, Twelve Angry Men, Gore Vidal's The Best Man twice and Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers.

Blum played Rosanna Arquette's husband in the 1985 comedy Desperately Seeking Susanand had a role in Crocodile Dundeeas a newspaper editor. He was on the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungleand wasin the Netflix crime drama You.

Madonna, who starred alongside Blum in Desperately Seeking Susan, called him "a remarkable human" who she remembered as"funny, warm, loving and professional," in an Instagram post.

She added that his death is "another reminder that this virus is no joke."

Colleagues, friends and family also paid tribute and shared memories of Blum on social media.

The coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, which can include fever and cough. Most people recover. The risk of death is greater for older adults and people with other health problems.