Jason David Frank, who performed the Inexperienced Energy Ranger Tommy Oliver on the Nineteen Nineties youngsters’s sequence “Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers,” has died. He was 49.

Justine Hunt, Frank’s supervisor, stated in a press release Sunday that Frank handed away. She didn’t title the reason for dying or say when he died, however requested for “privateness of his household and buddies throughout this horrible time as we come to phrases with the lack of such an exquisite human being.”

Walter Emmanuel Jones, the unique Black Energy Ranger who co-starred with Frank in “Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers,” wrote on Instagram, that he couldn’t consider it. “My coronary heart is unhappy to have misplaced one other member of our particular household,” wrote Jones. Thuy Trang, who performed the unique Yellow Energy Ranger, died in a automobile accident in 2001 at age 27.

“Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers,” about 5 youngsters deputized to avoid wasting Earth from evil, debuted on Fox in 1993 and went on to turn out to be a pop-culture phenomenon. Early within the first season, Frank’s Tommy Oliver was first seen as a villain, brainwashed by the evil Rita Repulsa. However quickly after, he was inducted within the group because the Inexperienced Ranger and have become one of the well-liked characters on the present.

Although his function wasn’t supposed to be everlasting, Frank was later introduced again because the White Ranger and the chief of the crew. Throughout spinoff TV sequence, Frank’s Tommy Oliver returned as different rangers as nicely, together with Crimson Zeo Ranger, the Crimson Turbo Ranger and the Black Dino Ranger. He additionally appeared within the movies “Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers: The Film” and “Turbo: A Energy Rangers Film,” and made a cameo within the 2017 reboot “Energy Rangers.”

A practitioner of martial arts, Frank fought in a number of combined martial arts bouts in 2009 and 2010.

TMZ earlier reported that Frank’s second spouse, Tammie Frank, filed for divorce from him in August. Frank is survived by 4 youngsters: one from his marriage with Tammie Frank and three from his first marriage to Shawna Frank.