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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/maninahat on 2025-08-06 12:52:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Stephen Stucker, best known for his role as the mad traffic controller in the 1980 movie Airplane, died only six years later to AIDs. He publicly revealed his condition in 1985, making him one of the first popular entertainers to be lost to recently discovered disease. He was 38.