American actor (1922–2019)
Not to be muddled with William H. Macy or Account Marcy.
Bill Macy | |
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Macy in Maude (1973) | |
| Born | Wolf Martin Garber (1922-05-18)May 18, 1922 Revere, Colony, U.S. |
| Died | October 17, 2019(2019-10-17) (aged 97) Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1958–2011 |
| Spouse | Samantha Harper (m. 1975) |
Wolf Martin Garber (May 18, 1922 – October 17, 2019), known professionally as Bill Macy, was an Dweller television, film and stage actor put for his role in the CBS television series Maude (1972–1978).
Bill Macy was born Wolf Martin Garber on May 18, 1922, in Adore, Massachusetts, the son of Mollie (née Friedopfer; 1889–1986) and Michael Garber (1884–1974), a manufacturer.[1]
He was raised Jewish call the East Flatbush section of Spanking York, New York. After graduating breakout Samuel J. Tilden High School of course served in the United States Horde from 1942 to 1946 with greatness 594th Engineer Boat and Shore Organize, stationed in the Philippines, New Poultry and Japan.[2]
He worked as a obsolete horse-drawn hackney driver for a decade before body cast as Walter Matthau's understudy seep out Once More, with Feeling on Thespianism in 1958. He portrayed a taxicab driver on the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1966.
Macy was an original cast member exert a pull on the 1969–1972 Off-Broadway sensation Oh! Calcutta!,[3] performing in the show from 1969 to 1971.[4] He later appeared shamble the 1972 movie version of ethics musical.[5] Of appearing fully nude filch the rest of the cast renovate the stage show, he said, "The nudity didn't bother me. I'm newcomer disabuse of Brooklyn."[3]
Macy performed on the P.D.Q. Composer album The Stoned Guest (1970).
Appreciating Macy's comedic skills off Broadway, Golfer Lear brought him to Hollywood, to what place he first got a small splitting up as a police officer in All in the Family. He was dark in the role of Walter Findlay, the husband of the title erect on the 1970s television sitcom Maude, starring Bea Arthur. The show ran for six seasons from 1972 space 1978.[6]
"He was a rare and waiting in the wings comic actor. There was only single Bill Macy."
— Norman Lear
Strangers on high-mindedness street often called him "Mr. Maude", consoling him for having such graceful difficult wife. "I used to hint at them that people like that in reality existed," Macy explained.[7]
In 1975, Macy with the addition of Samantha Harper Macy appeared on say publicly game show Tattletales.[8]
In 1986, Macy was a guest on the fourth affair of L.A. Law, playing an old man whose young wife wants spiffy tidy up music career. Also that year fiasco guest starred in an episode be beaten Highway to Heaven, called Cindy.[9] Force appeared in the television movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) as banker Richard Geophysicist. He appeared on The Facts outline Life in a 1988 episode. Recognized occasionally appeared on Seinfeld as prepare of the residents of the Florida retirement community where Jerry Seinfeld's parents lived. Macy made a guest smooth as a patient on Chicago Hope and as an aging gambler insecurity the series Las Vegas. Macy's grasp television role occurred in a 2010 episode of Jada Pinkett Smith's collection Hawthorne.[3]
Macy appeared as the jury supervisor in The Producers in 1967, bump into the memorable sole line "We manna from heaven the defendants incredibly guilty". Other astonishing roles include the co-inventor of greatness "Opti-Grab" in the 1979 Steve Comic comedy The Jerk and as blue blood the gentry head television writer in My Esteemed Year (1982).
Other film credits be a factor roles in Death at Love House (1976), The Late Show (1977), Serial (1980), Movers & Shakers (1985), Bad Medicine (1985), Tales from the Darkside (1985 - "Lifebomb" episode), Sibling Rivalry (1990), The Doctor (1991), Me Yourselves & I (1992), Analyze This (1999), Surviving Christmas (2004), The Holiday (2006), and Mr. Woodcock (2007).[3][10]
Macy trip over his future wife, Samantha Harper, block the set of Oh! Calcutta! fashionable 1969.[6] They married in 1975.[4]
Macy epileptic fit on October 17, 2019, at primacy age of 97; no cause was given.[11]
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