BREAKING - BILL MACY DEAD

Oh! Calcutta! Say hi to Bea for us.

So young.

Felicity Huffman’s husband can now drop the H.

I remember him having a small part in Frasier as a board member of the body corp.........or was that Mindy's dad from Mork and Mindy?

Either way, I thought it was kind of sad.

I remember him having a small part in Frasier as a board member of the body corp.........or was that Mindy's dad from Mork and Mindy?

Either way, I thought it was kind of sad.

From a Facebook post:

Actor Bill Macy passed away at 7:13pm Thursday October 17th, per his wife Samantha.

Born Wolf Martin Garber May 18, 1922 (age 97)

Samantha Harper (m. 1975)

He was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and worked as a cab driver before pursuing an acting career.

He has made more than 70 appearances on film and television. He appeared as the Jury Foreman in The Producers in 1967. Other memorable roles include the co-inventor of the 'Opti-grab' in the 1979 Steve Martin comedy The Jerk, and as the head television writer in My Favorite Year (1982).

Macy played Walter Findlay, the long-suffering husband of the title character on the 1970s television situation comedy Maude, starring Beatrice Arthur.

His other film credits include roles in Death at Love House (1976), The Late Show (1976), Serial (1980), Movers & Shakers (1985), Bad Medicine (1985), Tales from the Darkside (1986), Sibling Rivalry (1990), The Doctor (1991), Me, Myself and I (1992), Analyze This (1999), Surviving Christmas (2004), The Holiday (2006), and Mr. Woodcock (2007).

In 1986, Macy was a guest on the fourth episode of L.A. Law, playing an older man whose young wife wants a music career. Macy appeared in the popular television movie Perry Mason and The Case Of The Murdered Madame (1987) as banker Richard Wilson.

He appeared occasionally on Seinfeld as one of the residents of the Florida retirement community where Jerry Seinfeld's parents lived. He also appeared on the short-lived Fox sitcom Back to You. Macy portrayed a demon in a guest appearance on Millennium. Macy made a guest appearance as a patient on Chicago Hope, and as an aging gambler on the series Las Vegas.

Always on the losing end of sword ⚔️ fights with Maude!

I didn't know him.

I find it a little more than coincidental that the Golden Girl’s chia pet heads come out and he dies. I think seeing Bea with a green afro done did him in and he could take no more.

I was sure he was already dead.

Felicity will go to the funeral in chains.

God will get you for that, R11.

He begged Bea to have even a small guest role on Golden Girls and she laughed in his face. He was always the odd man out, even Conrad Bain refused to get him a walk on part.

In respect for the dead , we won't discuss the OH CALCUTTA ' INCIDENT .'

Even as a kid , I never thought he looked manly enough to be married to MAUDE .

From the linked article:

"In a 1998 interview with the Archive of American Television, Lear said that he "first saw Bill Macy choking on a chicken bone in an off-Broadway play…it took seven minutes; it was a tour de force." The producer brought him out to Hollywood, where he got a few lines as a cop on an episode of All in the Family and then the life-changing Maude role."

AND

"Survivors include his wife since 1975, actress Samantha Harper, a regular on another Lear show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. They met in the late '60s when both were in the original Broadway production of the zesty Oh! Calcutta!"

I don't remember his wife on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Tweet from a blast from the past:

Lydia Cornell @LydiaCornell

Rest in Peace #BillMacy ~ such a great character actor. Enjoyed his work as Walter Findlay in bot #AllInTheFamily and #Maude. #RIPBillMacy via @realJeffBlair

That’s a shame. ™

The last of the main Maude cast to go.

(And no, Adrienne Barbeau wasn't main cast!)

Speaking of Adrienne, she tweeted:

"Oh, Bill, you made me laugh ‘til I cried and now I’m just crying, but smiling through tears when I think of the great six years we shared. "

He conducted the meeting of the condo board at The Pines at Mar Gables Phase II that voted to impeach Morty Seinfeld.

Wonderful actor. RIP.

He once got in trouble on the set of "Maude"; one scene involving him doing a drunken strip down to his underwear or at least shirtless, but in rehearsal, having been in "Oh! Calcutta!" a few years before, he decided to strip everything off. I don't know if this was to a dress rehearsal with an audience, but the network was up in arm since the show had a child actor playing Adrienne Barbeau's son Philip. Anyway, I remember the story and rather wished Walter had stripped for me when I was younger. He was kind of cute, and he was great as Walter on the show. And yes, there are photos of the naked original "Oh! Calcutta!" cast (which included hunky hairy Alan Rachins from "L.A. Law" and "Dharma and Greg') on-line as well from a published book of the script. Rest in peace.

His wife Samantha had a small part in the early episodes of 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'. She played Roberta, the social worker who was assigned to Mary's Grandpa Larkin, who had been arrested for public exposure. Roberta fell in love with Grandpa Larkin, which was typical weird MHMH, and she lost her job as a social worker for that. Then she started promoting an EST-like self-improvement cult called STET. Then she started dating Sergeant Dennis Foley, who strung her along while he was also pursuing Mary and her sister Cathy. She did not return in season 2.

Other than Adrienne Barbeau, the main cast members are all now gone (also not including the kid I suppose, whoever he was). Macy had a good run for a man who already looked old in 1972.

Other than Adrienne Barbeau, the main cast members are all now gone (also not including the kid I suppose, whoever he was). Macy had a good run for a man who already looked old in 1972.

My friend's dad looked and talked just like him.

And he really WAS an alkie, not just a temporary one like Walter.

[quote] And no, Adrienne Barbeau wasn't main cast!

Uh, what?! Of course she was.

How many have seen Serial with DL fave Tuesday Weld? Bill Macy is in this and he’s hilarious along with the film.

“Say hi to Bea for us.”

That’s just so Maude-lin.

[quote] Uh, what?! Of course she was.

She was more a supporting character.

Almost every show had Maude/Walter/Arthur/Viv.

Speaking of Adrienne Barbeau a while ago someone posted a hilarious video of her dancing all wild at some telethon in the 70s. It's really random. I can't find it anywhere. If someone can please post it here.

I think the Telethon was an episode of "Maude".

And no mention of it on TMZ, of course.