Andy Whitfield, Original Spartacus: Sand Star and Blood, Dead at39 : Andy Whitfield, the British actor who starred on the 1st season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has passed away from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He was 39. Whitfield was diagnosed with treatable Stage 1 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in March of 2010, but determined to be cancer-free two months later, However, Starz announced in September of