{"id":88688,"date":"2020-05-16T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=88688"},"modified":"2020-06-01T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T21:59:45","slug":"comedic-actor-fred-willard-dies-at-86-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=88688","title":{"rendered":"Comedic Actor Fred Willard Dies at 86 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=88688\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=88688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88689 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/f0c552754fd97a8a5a984ffc801a3cd5c7-GettyImages-870363558.rsquare.w330-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/f0c552754fd97a8a5a984ffc801a3cd5c7-GettyImages-870363558.rsquare.w330-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/f0c552754fd97a8a5a984ffc801a3cd5c7-GettyImages-870363558.rsquare.w330-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/f0c552754fd97a8a5a984ffc801a3cd5c7-GettyImages-870363558.rsquare.w330.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four-time Emmy nominee Fred Willard, known for his numerous film and TV roles, died May 15, 2020, of natural causes in Los Angeles, California. He was 86.<\/p>\n<p>Willard\u2019s unique charm and wit paved the way for the beloved character actor\u2019s successful career in comedy. He was a member of The Second City, an improvisational comedy group, in the Chicago location. He was also a founding member of the improvisational comedy group Ace Trucking Company.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Willard is most well-known for his roles on the television series MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN (1976), ROSEANNE (1988), EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (1996), and MODERN FAMILY (2009), appearing in multiple episodes each. His other television credits include GET SMART (1965), LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE (1969), THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (1972), LAVERNE &amp; SHIRLEY (1976), SALEM\u2019S LOT (1979), THE LOVE BOAT (1977), FAME (1982), THE GOLDEN GIRLS (1985), MURDER, SHE WROTE (1984), MARRIED\u2026WITH CHILDREN (1987), DREAM ON (1990), MURPHY BROWN (1988), FRIENDS (1994), FAMILY MATTERS (1989), LOIS &amp; CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (1993), THE SIMPSONS (1989), MAD ABOUT YOU (1992), ALLY MCBEAL (1997), THAT 70S SHOW (1998), BACK TO YOU (2007), CHUCK (2007), CASTLE (2009), HOT IN CLEVELAND (2010), DRUNK HISTORY (2013), COMMUNITY (2009), and THE ODD COUPLE (2015).<\/p>\n<p>Willard\u2019s film credits include HUSTLE (1975), SILVER STREAK (1976), with Gene Wilder, FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (1977), with George Segal and Jane Fonda, THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984), ROXANNE (1987), with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah, PORTRAIT OF A WHITE MARRIAGE (1988), WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (1996), with frequent collaborators Christopher Guest and Catherine O\u2019Hara, PERMANENT MIDNIGHT (1998), AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME (1999), with Mike Myers and Heather Graham, BEST IN SHOW (2000), with Guest, O\u2019Hara and Eugene Levy, THE WEDDING PLANNER (2001), with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, A MIGHTY WIND (2003), again with Guest, O\u2019Hara and Levy, HAROLD &amp; KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE (2004), ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004), with Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate and Paul Rudd, MONSTER HOUSE (2006), FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (2006), DATE MOVIE (2006), I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN (2007), with Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd, EPIC MOVIE (2007), and ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Willard family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Geoffrey Huchel Four-time Emmy nominee Fred Willard, known for his numerous film and TV roles, died May 15, 2020, of natural causes in Los Angeles, California. He was 86. Willard\u2019s unique charm and wit paved the way for the beloved character actor\u2019s successful career in comedy. He was a member of The Second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[22273],"class_list":["post-88688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-comedic-actor-fred-willard-dies-at-86-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88688"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}