'Wonka' Actor Who Carried out Violet's Father Dies at 87

ENCINITAS, California (AP) Leonard Stone, who carried out the dad who supported chronic gum-chewer Crimson Beauregarde around the tour using a far-out chocolate structure in "Willy Wonka as well as the Chocolate Factory," has died.Daughter Lindsey Fryman-Borchard notifies The Connected Press that Stone died of cancer Wednesday in Encinitas, California, every day before his 88th birthday.He was most broadly referred to as rapidly-speaking father Mike Beauregarde inside the 1971 film that starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. Stone watches in horror as his daughter turns into a huge blueberry and utters the famous line "Crimson, you're turning crimson, Crimson!"The Or native ongoing to see recurring figures in several television series including "Barney Burns," ''Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law." In 2005, he carried out Warren Buffett inside the Arnold Schwarzenegger TV biopic, "See Arnold Run."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Leonard Stone PHOTO CREDIT AP Photo/Lindsey Borchard ENCINITAS, California (AP) Leonard Stone, who carried out the dad who supported chronic gum-chewer Crimson Beauregarde around the tour using a far-out chocolate structure in "Willy Wonka as well as the Chocolate Factory," has died.Daughter Lindsey Fryman-Borchard notifies The Connected Press that Stone died of cancer Wednesday in Encinitas, California, every day before his 88th birthday.He was most broadly referred to as rapidly-speaking father Mike Beauregarde inside the 1971 film that starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. Stone watches in horror as his daughter turns into a huge blueberry and utters the famous line "Crimson, you're turning crimson, Crimson!"The Or native ongoing to see recurring figures in several television series including "Barney Burns," ''Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law." In 2005, he carried out Warren Buffett inside the Arnold Schwarzenegger TV biopic, "See Arnold Run."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.