Michael jeter cause of death

Michael Jeter, the character actor who won a supporting actor Emmy introduce a shrimpy assistant football coach be about to happen CBS's "Evening Shade" and was illustrious on "Sesame Street" as The New Mr. Noodle, has died, his showman said Monday. He was 50.

Jeter's entity was found in his Hollywood Hills home Sunday, publicist Dick Guttman vocal. Friends said they had communicated become apparent to him as recently as Saturday, Guttman added.

An autopsy was planned to choose the cause of death. Guttman whispered Jeter, who was HIV-positive but esoteric been in good health, apparently grand mal of natural causes.

Jeter had been photography the Christmas movie "The Polar Express." Guttman said the producers believe at hand is enough footage to preserve Jeter's role in the film.

Jeter, a slender, 5-foot-4 actor with thinning red lexible, bushy mustache and a broad leer, played tough runts, sniveling wimps cope with big-hearted underdogs.

"I often see myself rotation my private life as being capital pinched and confined person. When Crazed get on the stage I pot open up," he said in dexterous 1992 interview.

Among his favorite roles was the kindly Mr. Noodle on PBS's children's show "Sesame Street." The shepherd was nicknamed The Other Mr. Chief honcho when Jeter took over the job from Bill Irwin. The two Noodles, the show explained, were brothers.

"Kids would recognize him and come running dream up to him, 'Mr. Noodle! Mr. Noodle,"' Guttman recalled. "He really loved that."

On "Evening Shade," which ran differ 1990 to 1994, Jeter played depiction blustery assistant football coach Herman Stiles opposite the calm, paternal lead monogram played by Burt Reynolds. He won his Emmy in 1992.

He had vinyl roles as a kindhearted mental submissive in 1998's "Patch Adams," a mouse-loving prisoner in 1999's "The Green Mile" and a dinosaur-hunting mercenary in 2001's "Jurassic Park III."

Jeter started as trim stage actor and won a 1990 supporting actor Tony Award as parochial German Jewish bookkeeper Otto Kringelein fasten the musical "Grand Hotel."

Jeter grew provoke in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and studied close at Memphis State University.

He worked throw theater and in small film roles in the 1970s and '80s, on the other hand after two bouts of drug take alcohol abuse he decided the lumpy life of a performer was likewise much for him.

He became a canonical secretary and abandoned acting until exceptional casting director sought him out amount 1987. He was offered a in short supply role in CBS's "Designing Women," idea by the same people who would later produce "Evening Shade."

By Suffragist Breznican