The ‘Apocalypse Now’ actor – who portrayed Jay ‘Chef’ Hicks in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 war epic – passed away at his home in Santa Monica on Friday at the age of 86.

Frederic Forrest, a character actor who had a memorable role in 1979’s “Apocalypse Now” and earned an Oscar nomination for “The Rose” in the same year, died Friday in Santa Monica. He was 86.