Jason Wingreen portrayed bartender Harry Snowden on the CBS sitcom All in the Family, a role he reprised on the continuation series Archie Bunker's Place.
12 Facts About Jason Wingreen
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Jason Wingreen was the original voice of Star Wars character Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
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Jason Wingreen was a co-founder of the Circle in the Square Theatre company in New York's Greenwich Village, and he appeared for the first time on Broadway in two 1954 plays: The Girl on the Via Flaminia and Fragile Fox.
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In 1958, Jason Wingreen had the role of Nichols in the 20th Century Fox production The Bravados.
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Jason Wingreen lent his voice to the bounty hunter Boba Fett in the 1980 sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back.
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Jason Wingreen helped to found the Circle in the Square Theatre in Greenwich Village.
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Jason Wingreen wanted to travel some more, so I just decided that was enough and I didn't do any more acting.
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Jason Wingreen appeared on the original Star Trek series, making him one of the few people involved with both Star Wars and Star Trek.
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In 1979, Jason Wingreen was a part of the ensemble cast of the TV mini-series Roots: The Next Generations.
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Jason Wingreen's last credited TV work was on In The Heat Of The Night in 1994.
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Jason Wingreen died at the age of 95 at his home in Los Angeles, California, on December 25,2015.
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Jason Wingreen was survived by his son, theoretical physicist, Ned Wingreen, two grandchildren, and his sister, Harriet, a former pianist for the New York Philharmonic.