Andrew Koenig is Missing

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Andrew_Koenig_is_MissingAndrew Koenig, 41, a pal of Mike (Kirk Cameron) in Growing Pains as Boner is missing.  According to The Vancouver Sun, Andrew Koenig was last seen on Valentine day in Vancouver last week.

He arrived in Vancouver on February 10 and was due to fly out of Vancouver on February 16, but never boarded the flight. And reported missing on February 18.

Koenig’s father is actor Walter Koenig who played Pavel Chekov on the original Star Trek TV series wrote on his website, that his son was suffering from clinical depression at the time of his disappearance.

The last time he heard from Andrew by phone was on February 9, his mom, Judy says, “We last spoke to him on Feb. 8 or 9th. I had some surgery and he phoned from Toronto to see how I was doing, but he sounded a little distant.”

His father was distraught. “I only want to say he’s a really good person, a great humanitarian,” he said. “Everyone who knew him was very fond of him. He was not in a good frame of mind when he called us. He was depressed.”

About two years ago, Andrew got arrested during the Rose Bowl parade for protesting American involvement in China’s Olympics due to China’s support of the Burma military regime.

Koenig was acting to bring attention to the plight of the Burmese, stepping in front of the float midparade holding a sign that read, “China: Free Burma.” He was detained for 10 hours and was forced to go to court for his actions.

Andrew’s father is fully supported his son and said, “My son has a very strong social conscience and believes that people who are deprived and people who are unfairly subjugated should have the same rights that all people should have.”

Andrew Koenig’s closest friend for the last 20 years, Maggie Langrick, a former actor and Vancouver Sun editor said Stanley Park was a “special place” for Koenig and searching for him in the park this weekend.

She describes him as a “wonderful person with a very active social conscience.”

“He is vegan for ethical reasons, and an active supporter of many causes, environmental, animal rights, human rights — he is a very sensitive person who has struggled for a long time with depression. He has a lot of friends who love him deeply,” she said.

Langrick also said that lives in Vancouver was very happy ones for him and he often told his friends that Vancouver his true home and hoped to return here to stay. But his career seems not going well. He did remain in the entertainment business and recent years he did standup comedy, video editing, documentary work and hoped to direct the feature film that he’d written.

His friends and family are worried about him because he is believed to have sold or gave
away a number of his possessions before flying to Canada, where he paid brief visits to close friends in Toronto and Montreal, and then Vancouver. He also refused a job two weeks earlier, saying he “wasn’t going to work anymore.”