17:51 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nUS actor Jeff Conaway, a star of the 70s musical Grease, has died aged 60.<\/p>\n
Conaway played the swaggering teenager Kenickie, alongside John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. He also played Bobby in the comedy series Taxi.<\/p>\n
His family decided to switch off his life-support machine after he had spent several days in an induced coma.<\/p>\n
The actor had battled for years against drug and alcohol addiction, something that he blamed on pain from a lingering back injury.<\/p>\n
He spoke openly about his addiction on the Celebrity Rehab reality show in 2008, his last TV appearance.<\/p>\n
Conaway made his Broadway debut in 1960 at the age of 10 in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama All the Way Home.<\/p>\n
He got his big break with Grease in 1978, but also suffered a back injury during filming which led to an addiction to painkillers and other drugs.<\/p>\n
Interviewed by Reuters news agency this month, his manager Phil Brock said: “Putting aside his demons, Jeff is the nicest, kindest, gentlest soul.<\/p>\n
“He’s a wonderful man, which makes it doubly sad that he is unable to conquer drugs. As a human being, he’s the person who’d literally give the shirt off his back for someone.”<\/p>\n
He was perhaps best known for the role of taxi driver and struggling actor Bobby Wheeler in the 1978-1983 hit TV sitcom Taxi, which starred Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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