The actor succumbed to prostate cancer he had been struggling with for some time. He had also starred in some episodes of the Scrubs and Modern Music series
died James Michael Tyler, the actor best known for his recurring role of Gunther in Friends. He was 59 years old. Tyler died yesterday, Sunday, October 24, at his Los Angeles home for a prostate cancer. This was reported by his manager, Toni Benson.
The tumor, already in one advanced stage, he had been diagnosed for the first time in 2018. The world knew him as Gunther, from the hit series “Friends”, but his loved ones knew him as actor, musician e loving husband, Benson wrote in a tribute. Michael loved the live music, cheered for his Clemson Tigers, and often found himself in fun adventures as well not planned.
Tyler appeared in some 90s series such as Just Shoot Me! e Sabrina the Teenage Witch before being chosen as the background character in the second season of Friends in 1994. For a year, I was there guest star most recurring in the series interpreting Gunther, the bartender of Central Park with a affection unpaid for Rachel (Jennifer Aniston). Tyler was initially chosen while worked as a barista at the coffee shop Bourgeois Pig in Los Angeles. Over the 236 episodes of the series, Tyler appeared in 150 of them. Warner Bros. Television, which produced Friends, commemorated him as a beloved actor and integral part of our “Friends” family.
Also Jennifer Aniston e Courtney Cox remembered Tyler on social media. “Friends” would not have been the same without you – he wrote Rachel/ Jennifer Aniston -. Thanks for laughter that you brought to the set e in lives of all of us. I will miss you a lot. While Cox posted: The greatness of the gratitude that you brought with you and that you showed every day on the set the magnitude of the gratitude I have for knowing you. Rest in peace James.
Once Friends ended in 2004, Tyler appeared in Scrubs, Modern Music and performed in an episode of Episodes by Matt LeBlanc in 2012. After he was diagnosed with cancer, Tyler starred in two short films while he was being treated and recited aloud poetry di Stephan Kalinich If You Knew to support the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Tyler leaves his wife, Jennifer Carno.
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