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Bill Erwin

Character actor

Died when: 96 years 27 days (1152 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Bill Erwin

William Lindsey Erwin (December 2, 1914 – December 29, 2010) was an American film, stage and television actor and cartoonist with over 250 television and film credits.

A veteran character actor, he is widely known for his 1993 Emmy Award-nominated performance on Seinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields.

He also made notable appearances on shows such as I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation.In cinema, his most recognized role is that of Arthur Biehl, a kindly bellman at the Grand Hotel, in Somewhere in Time (1980).

Erwin was a self-taught cartoonist, published in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Los Angeles.He won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, four Drama-Logue Awards, Gilmore Brown Award for Career Achievement, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters' Diamond Circle Award, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Angelo State University.


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