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Tinker was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Prince (née Byerly) (1927–2004) and former NBC chairman Grant Tinker (1926–2016), and the brother of John Tinker, with whom he worked on "St.Elsewhere".His stepmother was Mary Tyler Moore, who was married to Grant Tinker from 1962 until 1981.