Twin Peaks Star Davis Dead

TWIN PEAKS star DON DAVIS has died following a heart attack at his home in Canada. He was 65.

The actor, a former drama teacher in Vancouver, became a cult TV figure three times - as the mysterious Major Garland Briggs on Twin Peaks; as General George S. Hammond in sci-fi series Stargate: SG-1 and as Agent Scully's father on The X-Files.

Davis also appeared in baseball movie A League of Their Own and comedy Best in Show.

The actor began his career late after serving in Korea, where he became a U.S. Army captain, and studying drama in Illinois, where he earned a master's degree in theatre.

The used the degree to embark on a teaching career and quit that to become a full-time actor in the late 1980s.

Davis retired from acting last year (07) because of a heart condition.