Fred Willard

Birthplace: Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Birthday: September 18, 1933

Best known for his buttoned up professionals with no sense of their own cluelessness, actor Fred Willard emerged from the 1960s improv scene to become a critic’s favorite and an admired comedy veteran. After earning an initial cult following as the dimwitted sidekick of talk show host Martin Mull in the cutting-edge parody "Fernwood 2-Night" (Syndicated, 1977-78), Willard fans generally caught glimpses of the actor in character roles as self-assured and wildly incorrect authority figures in unremarkable film and television comedies.…more

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Totally Obsessed
The First Annual Worldwide Fido Awards
At the Movies
D.C. Follies
Fred
Getting the Last Laugh

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Career Milestones

2008
Voiced the president of the Buynlarge Corporation in the Pixar animated film "WALL-E"
2007
Cast as sportscaster, Marsh McGinley in the FOX series "Back to You"
2007
Once again teamed with Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer for the spoof/parody film "Epic Movie"
2006
Teamed with Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer for the comedy spoof "Date Movie"
2005
Featured in the big screen adaptation of "Bewitched"