‘The Middle’ Actor Pat Finn Dead at 60 After Cancer Battle

Veteran comedic actor Pat Finn — who starred in sitcoms like “The Middle” and “The George Wendt Show” — is useless from a most cancers battle … TMZ has confirmed.

Family sources inform us Pat handed away Tuesday morning at his residence in Los Angeles, and he was surrounded by his household.

Pat got here up in Hollywood across the similar time as his good pal Chris Farley. He and Chris attended Marquette University in 1987, performed rugby collectively there … and had been roommates in Chicago after they each joined the Second City comedy troupe.

In the early 90s, Pat landed a visitor function as Joe Mayo on “Seinfeld” … and went on to play Dan Coleman on “The George Wendt Show,” and Phil Jr. on “Murphy Brown.”

He’s in all probability finest recognized for his function on “The Middle,” the place he performed Bill Norwood from 2011 to 2018.

Several of his co-stars and associates, together with comic Jeff Dye, have posted on-line tributes.

While Pat’s household sources wouldn’t verify what sort of most cancers he’d been preventing, there are experiences he was recognized with bladder most cancers a number of years in the past.

Pat is survived by his spouse Donna — to whom he’d been married since 1990 — and their 2 youngsters.