reports. ET has reached out to Lander's rep for comment.Lander battled MS for 37 years. He went public with his diagnosis in 1999 and was a Goodwill Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
He wrote about his MS in his 2002 autobiography, .The New York native had dreams of becoming an actor since the age of 10, studying at the High School for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Tech and New York University.While at Carnegie, Lander and Michael McKean developed the character of Lenny and Squiggy, which would go on to be featured in the 1976 sitcom The show went on for eight seasons before it wrapped in 1983.Lander and McKean would go on to work together in Steven Spielberg 1979 comedy, (1980), and voice characters on the animated.
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