Dancer and actor Gene Anthony Ray, best known for his role as Leroy Johnson in 1980 film 'Fame', has died in New York.
He died of complications from a stroke he had in June; he was also HIV positive.
Ray starred as streetwise teenager Leroy in the 'Fame' spin-off TV series that ran throughout the Eighties.
Both film and series portrayed students at New York's High School of the Performing Arts, which Ray attended for a year before being kicked out.
Ray also appeared in 1995 film 'Out of Sync', directed by his 'Fame' co-star Debbie Allen, and 'Eddie' (1996) with Whoopi Goldberg.
According to his manager, Selma Rubin, Ray's last project was a BBC 'Fame' reunion documentary filmed in Los Angeles in April 2003.
