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Remembering James Michael Tyler: Friends' Gunther

Guardian, 25 Oct 2021
James Michael Tyler, most famous for playing Gunther, the manager of Central Perk in the hit sitcom Friends, has died aged 59. In an interview with NBC in June 2021, Tyler announced that he had stage 4 prostate cancer, which was diagnosed in 2018.
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