Bernie Mac died in a Chicago hospital on Saturday, leaving everybody in shock as he was said to be in a full recovery. But it seems his pneumonia got worse and the doctors couldn’t do anything to save his life. His publicist said that his death had no connection to the sarcoidosis he had been suffering of for 20 years and has been in remission since 2005.

The comedian was two times nominated of the Emmy Award, as an American actor and comedian. He attended Chicago Vocational Career Academy and he started his career during high school, when he used to put up shows for the children in the neighborhood.

At the age of 32 he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search, but what did throw him into the spotlight was “Def Comedy Jam,” one of his performances on HBO. During his career, he became Bosley for the Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.

In 2001, Fox offered Bernie Mac his first official show called The Bernie Mac Show, based on his own life.

Bernie Mac said in 2001 that wherever he is, he has to play. “I have to put on a good show,” the actor stated. The same year, he said that he had come from a place where there “wasn’t a lot of joy.” “I decided to try to make other people laugh when there weren’t a lot of things to laugh about.”

The big comedian was admitted to a Chicago hospital on August 1 and at first he was reportedly been responding well to treatment. He was married for more than 30 years with Rhonda McCullough and he had also a daughter and a granddaughter.

On his real name Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, he was born on October 5, 1957, in Chicago, growing up with his mother and grandmother.