1. Wolf Martin Garber, known professionally as Bill Macy, was an American television, film and stage actor known for his role in the CBS television series Maude.
13 Facts About Bill Macy
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Bill Macy was born Wolf Martin Garber on May 18,1922, in Revere, Massachusetts, the son of Mollie and Michael Garber, a manufacturer.
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Bill Macy was raised Jewish in the East Flatbush section of New York, New York.
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Bill Macy worked as a cab driver for a decade before being cast as Walter Matthau's understudy in Once More, with Feeling on Broadway in 1958.
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Bill Macy portrayed a cab driver on the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1966.
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Bill Macy later appeared in the 1972 movie version of the musical.
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Bill Macy was cast in the role of Walter Findlay, the husband of the title character on the 1970s television sitcom Maude, starring Bea Arthur.
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Bill Macy appeared in the television movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam as banker Richard Wilson.
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Bill Macy appeared on The Facts of Life in a 1988 episode.
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Bill Macy occasionally appeared on Seinfeld as one of the residents of the Florida retirement community where Jerry Seinfeld's parents lived.
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Bill Macy made a guest appearance as a patient on Chicago Hope and as an aging gambler on the series Las Vegas.
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Bill Macy appeared as the jury foreman in The Producers in 1967, with the memorable sole line "We find the defendants incredibly guilty".
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Bill Macy died on October 17,2019, at the age of 97; no cause was given.