THE SADDEST –
Oct. 29, 2023 – Mr. Perry’s character, Chandler Bing, was a successful executive known on the show for his witty and sardonic personality. “Friends” has endured decades after it first aired in 1994, gaining popularity among young audiences in recent years.
Mr. Perry’s career in television spanned nearly four decades, with his earliest credit in 1979, when he was a young child in an episode of the cop show “240-Robert,” according to IMDb.
Mr. Perry had a history of addiction and related medical problems that, by his accounting, led him to spend more than half his life in treatment centers or sober living facilities
He had prominent roles in various television shows in the 2010s, including “Mr. Sunshine,” a 2011 ABC comedy in which he starred as Ben Donovan, the general manager of the Sunshine Center, a San Diego sports and entertainment arena. In that role, he portrayed a gloomy, self-absorbed loner who was turning 40. Mr. Perry also played Oscar Madison opposite the actor Thomas Lennon, who portrayed Felix Unger, in all three seasons of a remake of “The Odd Couple,” which ran on CBS from 2015 to 2017.
