The actor died "at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness," his daughter saidKimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in Forbes and she has also worked in broadcast television as a reporter for Hawaii-based news station KHON2 News.Abby Stern is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.
The actress added that Mull had lived up to all her expectations and the pair would chat “a lot about gardening,” which had been a favorite pastime of the actor’s — and a favorite hobby for Oteri herself., also shared a statement with PEOPLE, saying that the actor’s “music, his art and his humor were all of a piece with his enormous intelligence.”PEOPLE's free daily newsletter
to stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.also shared that Mull had been “influential in his life” on X, noting that the actor “had been the greatest.”on Friday, June 28, writing,"I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness."
"He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials," she continued. "He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny." She also wrote that her dad "will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the sign of a truly exceptional person—by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.