Chew died of heart failure in 2013 at the age of fifty-two. “I don’t think Robert Chew realized how good he was,” said S. Robert Morgan, who played Butchie on the show. “I really don’t. He was spectacular. What you have to understand is that what you saw in Prop Joe was so far from what Robert Chew really is. He is the most soft-spoken, understated person I have ever met.”
