The last episode of Season 1 features the voice of NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon, who plays Turbo McCalister.
Animation Collective produced the series, while the Flash character animation was handled by the now-defunct Collideascope Studios as their very last project. It is the first Nicktoon not to be based on an original property. It is the fourth television adaptation of the franchise, and is executive produced by Lions Gate Entertainment, Larry Schwarz, and Ken Katsumoto. Tyler is survived by his wife, Jennifer Carno.Speed Racer: The Next Generation is an American animated television series based on the classic Japanese Speed Racer franchise, in which the internal events take place decades after those in the 1967 Japanese series. Once “Friends” concluded in 2004, Tyler made appearances on “Scrubs,” “Modern Music” and he played himself on an episode of Matt LeBlanc’s “Episodes” in 2012.Īfter being diagnosed with cancer, Tyler starred in two short films while undergoing treatment and gave a spoken word performance of the Stephan Kalinich poem “If You Knew” to help raise awareness for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Television, which produced the hit series, mourned the death of Tyler, “a beloved actor and integral part of our ‘Friends’ family.” Over the 236 episodes, Tyler appeared in 150 of them. He didn’t have a line of dialogue on “Friends” until he had made 33 appearances on the show, according to the 2019 book, “Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era,” by Saul Austerlitz. Tyler was initially cast while working as a barista at the Bourgeois Pig coffee shop in Los Angeles. Over the show’s multi-year-run, he became the most frequently recurring guest star on the series playing Gunther, the Central Perk barista with an unrequited affection for Rachel (Jennifer Aniston). Tyler had appeared briefly in 1990s series like “Just Shoot Me!” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” before being cast as a background character in the second episodes of “Friends” in 1994. “Michael loved live music, cheering on his Clemson Tigers, and would often find himself in fun and unplanned adventures.” “The world knew him as Gunther (the seventh ‘Friend’), from the hit series ‘Friends,’ but Michael’s loved ones knew him as an actor, musician, cancer-awareness advocate, and loving husband,” Benson wrote in a tribute. Tyler was first diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2018. Tyler died Sunday at home in Los Angeles from prostate cancer, said his manager, Toni Benson.
James Michael Tyler, the actor known widely for his recurring role as Gunther on “Friends,” has died.
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