Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac was a popular stand-up comedian and actor who starred in a number of roles, perhaps most famously as the face of his eponymous show, which ran for five years between 2001 and 2006. Mac earned two Emmy Award nominations for his performance on the series.
In the final years of Mac's life, he disclosed that he was suffering from sarcoidosis, a disease that causes tissue inflammation which frequently attacked his lungs. He was admitted to the hospital in 2008 and went into cardiac arrest from pneumonia complications.
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