1. William Lindsey Erwin was an American film, stage and television actor with over 250 television and film credits.
16 Facts About Bill Erwin
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Bill Erwin made notable appearances on shows such as I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Bill Erwin was a self-taught cartoonist, published in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Los Angeles.
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Bill Erwin won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, four Drama-Logue Awards, Gilmore Brown Award for Career Achievement, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters' Diamond Circle Award, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Angelo State University.
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Bill Erwin was born William Lindsey Bill Erwin on December 2,1914, in Honey Grove, Texas.
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Bill Erwin earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's in theater arts from California's Pasadena Playhouse.
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Bill Erwin later served as a captain in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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Bill Erwin acted in productions at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Laguna Beach Playhouse, the La Jolla Playhouse, and other venues in the Los Angeles area.
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Bill Erwin had credited small roles in films such as The Christine Jorgensen Story, How Awful About Allan, Candy Stripe Nurses and Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, before he co-starred alongside Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time as Arthur Biehl, the Grand Hotel's venerable bellman, and attended annual reunions of cast, crew, and fans of the cult classic at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan.
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Bill Erwin appeared in numerous films by John Hughes, with cameos in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She's Having a Baby, Home Alone and Dennis the Menace.
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Bill Erwin played the Jury Foreman in The Wild Wild West S3 E12 "The Night of the Legion of Death".
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Bill Erwin guest-starred in the Seinfeld episode, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series, he played Sid Fields, who participates in the Foster-A-Grandpa Program, which pairs him with Jerry Seinfeld.
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Bill Erwin later reunited with Michael Richards when he guest-starred on the short-lived The Michael Richards Show.
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Bill Erwin was married to actress and journalist Fran MacLachlan Bill Erwin from 1948 to her death in 1995.
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Bill Erwin died from natural causes at his home in Studio City, California on December 29,2010, aged 96.
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Bill Erwin lived near the production lot where Seinfeld was filmed.