Taylor Wily Dead: The 'Hawaii Five-O' Star Was 56

WAIKIKI, HI - Taylor Wily attends the Sunset on the Beach event celebrating season 8 of "Hawaii ... [+] Five-0" at Queen's Surf Beach on November 10, 2017 in Waikiki, Hawaii. (Photo by Darryl Oumi/Getty Images)

Taylor Wily, the actor and former wrestler known for his role as Kamekona Tupuola, died on Thursday. He was 56 and no cause of death was revealed.

Wily appeared on 171 episodes of Hawaii Five-O, and guest-starred the same role in episodes of the MacGyver and Magnum P.I. reboots.

“I am devastated. Heartbroken. I’ll post some detailed feelings later. Just too hard right now,” wrote Hawaii Five-O executive producer Peter M. Lenkov on Instagram. “T, as I told you many times, I fell in love with you at the first audition. You came in with a towel on your head mopping up sweat, and I was smitten. You charmed me into making you a regular… on the show… and in my life. You were family. And I will miss you every day, brother. PS: when we spoke last week, we laughed at how right you were from Day 1. ‘Five-0’ was our dream job. And I was so lucky we got to share that magic together.”

Born Teila Tuli on June 14, 1968, Wily also appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which starred Jason Segel, Kristen Bell and Paul Rudd. His other TV credits include episodes of One West Waikiki and North Shore.

Off screen, Wily was a sumo wrestler known as Takamikuni and later went on to explore mixed martial arts (MMA), where he competed as Teila Tuli.

He is survived by his wife Halona and their two children.

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