Who Died from the Show Home Improvement?

Earl passed away on December 29, 2003 due to lung cancer. Taran Noah Smith, who played Mark Taylor between 1994 and 2002, left the show and married Heidi Van Pelt in 2001. The couple opened a vegan restaurant called PlayFood in California and a non-dairy cheese plant in Kansas City when they were seniors. Prestia was one of the founders of the company and school of improvisational comedy and Los Angeles-based sketch The Groundlings, where they performed in the 70s on stage alongside legends Paul Pee Wee Herman Ruebens, Phil Hartman, Laraine Newman, Edie McClurg and Cassandra Elvira Peterson.