'Shiloh' Actor Blake Heron Found Dead

LA CRESCENTA, CA – Actor Blake Heron, who starred in the 1996 movie "Shiloh," was found dead today at his home in La Crescenta, authorities said.

The 35-year-old was found by a friend and was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:49 a.m., according to coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter.

An autopsy was pending, but Heron was reported to have been battling the flu for the past few days, Winter said.

According to a report in TMZ, Heron battled a heroin addiction and recently was in rehab, however no illegal drugs were found in his home.

Heron this year was in the film "A Thousand Junkies," a comic narrative about three Los Angeles heroin addicts, that screened at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

Heron's credits include film "We Were Soldiers," and television series "Good vs Evil," "ER," and "Criminal Minds," according to his IMDB biography.

--City News Service contributed to this report/Image credit: Noam Galai / Stringer/ Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images