Overview
- Veteran character actor began his screen career around age 50 with a 1982 appearance on NBC’s Voyagers!.
- He portrayed Smitty in 12 episodes of Will & Grace across the original run and the 2017–20 revival.
- Known for playing clergy and authority figures, a persona his son summed up as “marrying or burying people.”
- His first substantial film role came at 76 as a sheriff in Disney’s Snow Buddies, following credits in Men in Black, Pleasantville and Ghost World.
- A Navy veteran of the Korean War with an English degree from UC Berkeley, he is survived by five children, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.