John Dye
John Carroll Dye ( born January 31, 1963 in Amory, Mississippi; † January 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California ) was an American actor.
Life
Dye was born as the eldest son of James Dye and his wife, Lynn; his father worked as a furniture maker, and his mother was a housewife. First acting experiences made Dye as a child during his school days. In a school play at the Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, he played the youngest child of the famous Von Trapp family in a performance of the musical The Sound of Music. Dye played there also trombone in the school band. He attended Tupelo High School in Tupelo, where in 1981 he earned his high school diploma. During his time at the Tupelo High School, he played again in a school production of The Sound of Music; This time he played the eldest son of the Trapp family, Friedrich von Trapp. He also alleged there directed a school production of Grease.
After graduation Dye initially attended Mississippi State University where he finished law in the main compartment, with the aim of pursuing a career as a lawyer with a focus on civil law. After a year he moved on, however, the Memphis State University, where he studied at the College of Communication drama and theater.
In 1984 he got his first film role as Skip in the comedy Down and Out in the Hoover Academy, on the side of Judd Nelson. In the television series and the Restless, he played the role of Jason Carter in some episodes. In 1986 the film Ants in the Pants, an inconsequential comedy in which he played together with Virginia Madsen and Cynthia Gibb. He had his first starring role in 1987 in the comedy The secret of my career. In 1989 he was on the side of James Earl Jones and Eric Roberts as a computer whiz Virgil Keller in the martial arts movie Karate Tiger IV - to see Best of the Best.
Dye then worked from the late 1980s, almost exclusively for television. After one episode role in the crime series Murder, She Wrote is he was in the war series NAM - service in Vietnam and in the short-lived television series Jack 's Place and Hotel Malibu ( with Jennifer Lopez ) to see.
Special recognition at the television audience became Dye through the role of Andrew in the series Touched by an Angel, which he played from 1996 to 2003. The recurring series role of Andrew he had already for some sequences in the spin-off series, Promised Land, embodies. Add a touch from heaven he then belonged to the end of the main cast of the show.
Private
Dye had two other brothers, Jerry and Jamie Dye. He was a member of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America, whose worship he visited regularly. Dye died at his home in San Francisco, of a heart attack.