Hollywood has bid farewell to another face from its golden era. Anthony Guidera, an actor who appeared in "The Godfather Part III," "Armageddon," "The Substitute" and "The Watchers," has died at 65 - unexpectedly, at home, surrounded by family.

Guidera, born on October 18, 1960, in San Francisco, wasn't a front-row name, but he was one of those faces a viewer recognizes without knowing the name. In "The Watchers" (1995) he even won an MTV award for best movie kiss - a category that today sounds almost nostalgic, from a time when cinema knew how to laugh at itself. He had his last film role in 2005.

The circumstances of his death are cruelly ordinary. On May 11, 2026, he collapsed in the living room of his home in Southern California. He suffered a heart attack and was taken to hospital, where he was put on life support. Doctors couldn't determine exactly what caused the heart failure. The family made a hard decision - to take him off the machines so he could spend his last hours at home, among his own.

"With deep sorrow we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved Anthony," said his wife Valerie Anderson. "We are broken and bear this pain with difficulty, living moment by moment." The story, as she put it, was "far too short."

Off-screen, Guidera was connected to Astara, a spiritual foundation devoted to esoteric wisdom and self-knowledge, where he held the title of minister. That's the part of Hollywood that's rarely written about - people who lived between the cameras and something deeper, and who leave without the headlines the stars get. A short role in a big film is enough for someone to stay in a viewer's memory forever. Perhaps that's the most sincere kind of fame.