Andrew Koenig was best known for his recurring role as Richard ‘Boner’ Stabone, Kirk Cameron’s best friend, on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains from 1985 to 1989. He was also the son of Walter Koenig, the actor who played Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series.
The younger Koenig was born in Los Angeles, California, on August 17, 1968. He began appearing on television as a child in the early 1970s, and guest-starred in episodes of several sitcoms in the 1980s. He provided the voices for the characters Ambush and Night Creeper Leading for the animated G.I. Joe series in the early 1990s. He was also featured as Tumak in the Sanctuary episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1993.
He worked mainly in independent films from the early 2000′s, and starred as the Joker in the fan-film Batman: Dead End, which debuted at the San Diego Comic-Con International in 2003. Koenig also directed and edited several independent shorts. Koenig, who reportedly had been suffering from depression, was last seen in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on February 14, 2010. He missed a return flight to the United States two days later. He was found dead of an apparent suicide in Stanley Park, in Vancouver on February 25, 2010. Koenig was 41.
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