Jack Colvin, who played journalist Jack McGee in the original TV series of The Incredible Hulk, has died at the age of 71 in Los Angeles.

Colvin died of stroke complications on Thursday in a North Hollywood nursing home, The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.

Colvin played a large number of character roles in a range of hit television shows such as Kojak, Quincy, Cagney and Lacey and Murder She Wrote. He was active in Los Angeles theatre, and was the artistic director of the Michael Chekhov Studio, USA West, at the time of his death.