The American President actor Clement Von Franckenstein has died at the age of 74. According to Hollywood Reporter, Franckenstein died of hypoxia at a hospital in Los Angeles. The urbane British actor was born on May 28, 1944, outside London. He played several roles in movies like Lionheart, Death Becomes Her, The Evening Star and Hail, Caesar!

While Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974) was his first movie, Franckenstein also had an uncredited role in Carl Reiner's Fatal Instinct (1993).