Walter Cronkite's 22-Year-Old Grandson Takes His Own Life
WATERVILLE, Maine (CBS/AP) — Late CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite's grandson and the voice of Dennis the Menace has died.
Colby College President David Greene says Peter Cronkite, a student at the school, took his own life over the weekend in Waterville, Maine. He was weeks away from graduation.
Cronkite, born Peter Reilly Rush Cronkite, was sports editor of the campus newspaper and was on the rugby team. He was also a film enthusiast who, as a boy, served as the voice of Dennis the Menace in a 2002 animated movie. Tom Arnold played Mr. Wilson.
Also in 2002, Cronkite did voice work in "Liberty Kids: Est. 1776."
Greene says Cronkite's love of athletics, intelligence and personality "won him scores of friends and admirers." He says Cronkite was due to receive a prize for excellence in his major, classical civilization.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Cronkite worked for the New York Mets at Citi Field during the summer of 2014 and for Sports Illustrated during the 2012 Olympics.
Cronkite is survived by his parents and a brother.
A funeral will be held Saturday at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City.
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