00:00Three months before he died, Patrick Stewart ruled out retiring.
00:03Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles at age 86,
00:08according to a statement on his official Instagram account.
00:10The statement said his wife, Sunny, was with him,
00:13and it described a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's and dementia.
00:17The Washington Post reported that his spokesperson also named Lewy Body Dementia.
00:22Back in July, he told TV Insider he couldn't imagine ever officially retiring.
00:27That came after a rumor, which started on a podcast,
00:30that Avengers Doomsday, where he returns as Professor X, would be his last film.
00:35He said he'd always and forever be an actor.
00:38He also said he still loved being challenged by new work,
00:41including voicing a pig's head in Riz Ahmed's series Bait.
00:45Stewart was best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek The Next Generation
00:49and as Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies.
00:52Ian McKellen called him the most respected and beloved actor of his generation,
00:56and Hugh Jackman, William Shatner, and Marvel Studios also paid tribute.
01:01Which of his two big roles will you remember him for most, Picard or Professor X?
