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Fred Willard

Actor

Born - 18 September 1933, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Died - 15 May 2020

Tall, square-faced, dark-haired American actor, almost always in IQ-challenged comedy roles, and a master of sketch comedy on TV. Hundreds of TV and nightclub appearances from 1960 were punctured by quite a few films: Teenage Mother (1967), Model Shop (1969), Jenny (1970), The Harrad Experiment (1973), Hustle (1975), Silver Streak (1976), Fun With Dick and Jane (1977), Americathon (1979), First Family (1980), Movie Madness (1982), This is Spinal Tap (1984), Moving Violations (1985), Roxanne (1987), Portrait of a White Marriage (1988), High Strung (1992), Prehysteria 3 (1995), Permanent Midnight (1998), Idle Hands (1999), Best in Show (2000), The Wedding Planner (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Lovewrecked (2005), Date Movie (2006), I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007), a voice in WALL-E (2008), Scouts' Honor (2009), A Very Mary Christmas (2010), Fred & Vinnie (2011), The Magic of Belle Isle (2012), Dealin' With Idiots (2013), The Yank (2014), Bachelors (2015), Mascots (2016), The Bobby Roberts Project (2018), his last, and many more. His playwright wife Mary died in 2018 after 50 years of marriage.