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Details of Julian McMahon’s cancer revealed a week after his death aged 56

Charmed, Fantastic Four and Nip/Tuck actor’s cause of death was lung metastasis due to head and neck cancer

The Charmed, Fantastic Four and Nip/Tuck actor died on 2 July from lung metastasis as a result of head and neck metastatic cancer, according to a cremation approval report from the Pinellas county medical examiner’s office in Florida obtained by People magazine. McMahon, who also played the playboy plastic surgeon Dr Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck, was remembered by his co-stars Dylan Walsh and Joely Richardson. McMahon’s Fantastic Four co-star Ioan Gruffudd called the news “terribly sad”, writing on Instagram: “Even though we played each other’s nemeses, there was always so much lightness and laughter working together.

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