Wendt's publicist, Melissa Nathan, confirmed that he had died earlier that morning in a statement shared with PEOPLE

Two weeks after “Cheers” actor George Wendt passed away, his cause of death has now been revealed. Wendt’s immediate cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest on his death certificate, which was released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Thursday.

When George Wendt, the actor who played Norm, died recently, people of a certain generation remembered a comfortable, if not inspiring, presence. Norm had a job he didn’t like (accounting) and a wife he avoided (Vera), but he did have friends in a neighborhood pub (Cheers) in Boston where everybody did know his name.