biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1945– )
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| biography:
| Film actor, born in Waco, Texas, USA. As a comedy writer for television he won an Emmy Award for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968) and a nomination for Van Dyke and Company (1975). He made his film debut in The Absent Minded Waiter (1977), which received an Oscar nomination for best short film. An inspired performance of lunacy in All Of Me (1984) brought him a New York Film Critics' Best Actor Award. Later films include Parenthood (1989), Housesitter (1992), Father of the Bride and its sequel (1991, 1995), and Bowfinger (1999). |
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