Teri GarrHe is known for his roles Tootsie And Young Frankensteindied. He was 79 years old.

His manager Marc Gurvitzconfirmed the news of his death to CNN on Tuesday, October 29.

He was “surrounded by family and friends” at the time of his death, his publicist said. Heidi Schaeffersaid People.

Garr has appeared in the following films: My god!, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind And Mr. Mom throughout his career. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the movie. Tootsie In 1982.

He announced that he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2002.

“It all started in 1983. I was living in New York and going for a run in Central Park and starting tripping,” he said, according to Brain & Life. “I noticed that the more I ran and the warmer my body got, the weaker I got. But then it went away and disappeared for about ten years. Then it started again and I started feeling stabbing pains in my arm while I was running but I thought, well, I’m in Central Park, maybe I’m getting stabbed.”

He said his health problems caused him to visit multiple doctors.

“Every movie I’ve ever made, I would go to a different doctor where we were shooting, and everyone had different ideas about what it might be,” the Academy Award nominee explained. “Every once in a while someone would mention MS, but then someone else would think it was something else.”

Garr was officially diagnosed with MS in 1999. He began his struggle with chronic autoimmune disease in his 2006 book: Speed ​​Bumps: Driving Through Hollywood.

“MS is an insidious disease,” she wrote. “Like some of my male friends, it has a tendency to appear at the strangest times and then disappear completely. It would take more than 20 years for doctors to figure out what was wrong. Sometimes they mentioned MS, but all the tests came back clean. the symptoms would disappear and I would just kind of forget about it.

“Whatever this MS was, the industry wanted no part of it,” Garr continued. “At first I was angry. Whatever was going on in my body had been going on for years. It has never hindered my work. Then I started to think that job offers were disappearing because I sucked as an actor. “It was a difficult trifecta: mysterious symptoms, my insecurities about my acting ability, and the reality of being an ‘aging’ actor.”

Garr had his last acting experience in 2011. How to Marry a Billionaire?.

Daughter survived Molly O’Neiland a grandchild. She welcomed Molly during her marriage to John O’Neil, to whom she was married from 1993 to 1996.