Acton Tiny Lister — best known for his role as Deebo in Ice Cube’s movie “Friday” — was found non-responsive in his Los Angeles apartment on Thursday.
He had a connection to the San Francisco 49ers because receiver Deebo Samuel, whose real name is Tyshun, got his nickname from Lister’s character in the motion picture.
ESPN aired a segment on how Samuel wound up being known as Deebo when he was a child.
Samuel responded to the news with a social media post attached to a video where Lister is commenting while watching the piece air on ESPN during last week’s Monday Night Football broascast.