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Taylor Wily, 'Hawaii Five-O' Actor, Dead at 56

Taylor Wily, best known for his roles on 'Hawaii Five-0' and 'Magnum P.I.,' has died at age 56.

His first notable acting role in a major film came in 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall in which he played a hotel worker who befriends Jason Segel's Peter Bretter. Two years later, he was cast in a recurring role on CBS' Hawaii Five-0 reboot as entrepreneurial local informant Kamekona, a character he would play for the show's entire 10-year run from 2010 to 2020. Duke Lukela on the Hawaii Five-0 reboot, shared a photo of the pair on Instagram and wrote, "Laura and I are heart broken to learn of the passing of Taylor Wily.

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