Ken Web page, a veteran voice actor and Broadway star, has died … TMZ has discovered.

Ken’s rep, Lance Kirkland, tells TMZ … the ‘Nightmare Earlier than Christmas’ actor handed away “very peacefully” in his house in St. Louis Monday. We’re informed Ken sat down in his chair and handed away in his sleep.

Kirkland continues … “He was a good looking, proficient man who was bigger than life. Ken was beloved and adored by so many and will probably be missed a lot.”

This affirmation comes after Ken’s good friend Dorian Hannaway took to Fb Monday night to share the tragic information. On the time, the producer informed her followers that KP had “handed onto the subsequent present,” leaving her with a damaged coronary heart.

Actress Shari Belafonte adopted up with a touching tribute to Ken, remembering the actor as “one of many sweetest, most proficient guys on the planet.”

Ken was greatest recognized for voicing the villainous Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton‘s 1993 animated musical, “The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas” … an everyday staple of each the Halloween and Christmas seasons.

His different notable credit embrace “Household Issues,” “All Canine Go to Heaven,” “Sable,” “Adventures in Wonderland,” and “Dreamgirls.”

Nevertheless, his Broadway legacy could go away the biggest impression … having portrayed the Lion within the 1975 stage manufacturing of “The Wiz.” He additionally performed Properly-Properly Johnson in Broadway’s 1976 revival of “Guys and Dolls,” and Outdated Deuteronomy in Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s “Cats” in 1982.

His passing comes amid one other loss within the Broadway group … Tony winner Gavin Creel additionally died Monday, following a battle with sarcoma, a uncommon and aggressive type of most cancers.

Ken was 70 years previous.