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DALLAS — Jason David Frank, the actor and MMA boxer best known for his role in the “Power Rangers” franchise, died Sunday. He is 49 years old.
Frank’s manager, Brian Butler-Au of Sucker Punch Entertainment, confirmed his death on Instagram. TMZ, citing people familiar with the matter, said Frank died by suicide in Texas.
Frank played Tommy Oliver (Green Ranger and White Ranger) on the original television series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” from 1993 to 1996, a popular children’s show featuring six teenage superheroes with martial arts skills. He also starred in 1995’s “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie” and various other “Power Rangers” spin-off series throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
Frank is an eighth-degree black belt in karate, and is also proficient in various martial arts such as taekwondo, judo, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
He took part in MMA in 2010, when he fought a few times. Frank won four amateur fights and played only one professional fight. Four of those games were played in Texas: two in Houston, one in Arlington and one in McCarran.
Frank lives in Humble City in the Houston metropolitan area. He also owns a martial arts studio there called Rising Sun Karate, where he is an instructor of his own martial arts system, Toso Kune Do, according to the business website.
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