By Bruce Haring
18.05.2020 - 00:47 / torontosun.com
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) — Fred Willard, the comic actor known for his genial but dunderheaded characters, has died. He was 86.
Though most sources reported that he was born in 1939, some asserted that he was actually six years older, with a 1933 birth date.
Willard was an astonishingly ubiquitous presence especially on TV but also in movies for decades, though almost always in small but memorable roles.
The New York Times said in 2008: “He has become the king of the deadpan cameo, the guy who
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Fred Willard, a comic actor known for his scene-stealing, heavily improvised work with filmmaker Christopher Guest and his Emmy-nominated appearances on the sitcoms “Modern Family” and “Everybody Loves Raymond,” died May 15 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86.
Fred Willard has died at the age of 86.
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