We knew him as The One Who Dishes Out the Sarcasm in the ’90s hit sitcom “Friends.”
James Michael Tyler, who revealed he had late-stage prostate cancer in June 2021, died today.
He was 59 years old.
If you met him once you made a friend for life.
PerCelebrity Net Worth, James Michael Tyler was born May 28, 1962 in Winona, Mississippi.
He was the youngest of six children, according toFamous Birthdays.
In The Clarion-Ledger, viaLaReeca Rucker, he said his childhood was a “Mayberry upbringing.”
“I would get up at dawn in Mississippi,” he said.
“I would disappear for the entire day, and come back home when the street lights came on.
I was raised at a time when things were simple and safe.”
When Tyler was 11, his father a retired Air Force captain died in a car accident.
And his mother died shortly afterward of breast cancer.
My sister took me in and raised me like a son … She was 10 years older."
In 1988, he moved to Los Angeles, with just $200 in his pocket.
As for Gunther’s iconic white hair that was the result of an accident.
The actor was married twice.
His marriage to first wife Barbara Chadsey ended in 2003, over irreconcilable differences.
He was married to Jennifer Carno at the time of his death (viaCelebrity Mirror).
Among the instruments he played were the clarinet, saxophone, and piano.
He kept a music studio in his home in L.A.
Per LaReeca Rucker’s Clarion-Ledger piece, he credited his Mississippi homeplace as inspiration.
“I’ve always aspired to score a film or TV movie,” he said.
“If there’s anything I’d like to achieve it’s to score or produce music.
That for me is like taking a walk.
It interests me, grounds me and I lose track of time.
Mississippi gave me that.”
“…they screen for PSA, which is prostate-specific antigen.
That came back at an extraordinarily high number … “It was bittersweet, honestly.
I was very happy to be included.
