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Stan Kirsch Dies: ‘Highlander: The Series’ Actor  Was 51 Stan Kirsch, an actor who played the Immortal Richie Ryan for five seasons on the 1990s syndicated hit fantasy drama  Highlander: The Series , died Jan. 11 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 51. The cause of death was suicide, according to the L.A. County Medical Examiner’s Office. His death was announced on the Facebook page of Stan Kirsch Studios, the Los Angeles acting studio he founded with his wife Kristyn Green in 2008. Green subsequently confirmed Kirsch’s death in a Facebook post thanking well-wishers (“I feel surrounded by love and am forever grateful to each and every one of you,” she wrot e.)