| Michael Jeter was born on August 26, 1952, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He died on March 30, 2003, in Los Angeles, California.
Jeter won an Emmy for playing Herman Stiles, the assistant coach on the Burt Reynolds sitcom "Evening Shade". In 1990, he won a Tony for the role of a provincial German Jewish bookkeeper in the musical "Grand Hotel."
Jeter's film roles included a kindhearted mental patient in 1998's "Patch Adams," the mouse-loving prisoner in 1999's "The Green Mile," and a dinosaur-hunter in 2001's "Jurassic Park III." Visitor Comments:Connections:Michael Jeter ... |