James Michael Tyler is an American actor who is best known to viewers for his role as Gunther on Friends. However, Tyler has a lot of interesting movie characters on his account. He also starred in the popular medical comedy Clinic.
Biography and personal life
Tyler was born into a large family. He had 5 older siblings. He was born on May 28, 1962 in Winona in the US state of Mississippi. James grew up in a family of a military man and a housewife. In his early youth, Tyler lost his parents and from the age of 11 he lived with his sister in South Carolina.
James attended Anderson College, which later became a university. He graduated from Clemson. Tyler's specialty during his student years was geology. It was during his studies at the university that James began to get involved in theater and decided to become an actor. Tyler holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia.
In the late 1980s, the actor settled in Los Angeles. At the beginning of his career, he was an assistant producer. Then he was hired as an assistant editor. Tyler's wife was Barbara, a personal trainer. Among the actor's hobbies are music, tennis, golf, running.
Career
The role in the famous TV series "Friends" took place at the beginning of James's acting career. He has starred with Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. Tyler's character is Gunter, the owner of a cafe where the main characters often gather. In the story, he is unrequitedly in love with Rachel. Tyler's role, although secondary, is permanent. He has appeared on the show for all 10 seasons.
The actor also played Ethan in the TV series Sabrina the Little Witch. It ran from 1996 to 2003. Another famous TV series in which Tyler played is Fashion Magazine. In 1997, James got a small role in the thriller Passion Hotel. The actor's partners on the set were Sean Young, Soleil Moon Fry, Rob Stewart and Robert Vaughn.
Filmography
Two years later, he played Randy in the detective melodrama Letters from Afar, and then got a cameo role in the medical series Clinic. In 2008, Tyler starred in the short drama Living With It. A year later, James played in the comedy Jason's Big Problem.
The actor was often invited to American TV shows, for example, in the projects "Today", "Entertainment Tonight", "This Morning", "Morning Television", "Free Women", "Breakfast", "Saturday Show", "I love 90 th "," Nobody watches TV."
James Tyler has played himself several times on TV series, for example, in the comedy "Episodes" with such actors as Matt LeBlanc and Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greg and John Pankow, Kathleen Rose Perkins and Marsay Monroe, Joseph May and Daisy Haggard. The series was successfully shown not only in the USA, but also in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Spain, Hungary and Germany.
