Getty Images Tyler Hynes has announced the death of his father. The 40-year-old Hallmark star posted a sad tribute video to his dad on Monday (May 11), which would have been his 70th birthday. He passed away on April 29. "On the morning of April 29th, I was left with a boundless amount of love and admiration for a man who gave me an endless amount of what made him, him that has inevitably made me, me," Tyler wrote in the video's caption. "I now have an understanding of what all this is. I understand now that I wasn't left at all.