‘Mission: Impossible’ TV Actor Dead At 61

Actor Greg Morris, who played technical wizard Barney Collier in the “Mission: Impossible” television series, was found dead Tuesday. He was 61.

Morris died at home, a spokeswoman for the Clark County Coroner’s office said. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Morris battled brain cancer the past few years, but he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in May that he was cancer-free.

Morris was one of the first black actors to star in a hit series during the 1960s, playing a quiet, efficient electronics expert on “Mission: Impossible,” which ran from 1966-1973.

But he walked out of the new movie version after watching only 40 minutes. “It’s an abomination,” he said of the film, which did not feature any of the TV series’ cast.