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Erwin was a self-taught cartoonist, published in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Los Angeles. He won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, [ 1 ] four Drama-Logue Awards, Gilmore Brown Award for Career Achievement, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters' Diamond Circle Award, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Angelo State University .
A Tribute to the Stars: Bill Erwin: Star of Stage, Screen and Television. Devoted to the distinguished career of one of America's most beloved and enduring character actors.
An avid wordsmith, he is presently at work on a children's book, a compendium of his original aphorisms, and a collection of his humorous cartoons. In July 2004, R. Kent Rasmussen dedicated his book, Mark Twain for Kids: His Life and Times: "To Bill Erwin, the youngest kid I know . . ."
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. Early life.
Bill Erwin was born on 2 December 1914 in Honey Grove, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Somewhere in Time (1980) and Home Alone (1990). He was married to Lucy Frances MacLachlan. He died on 29 December 2010 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA
William Lindsey Erwin (December 2, 1914- December 29, 2010) was an American character actor. In a career lasting nearly 70 years, he played over 250 roles. He appeared in numerous John Hughes films, including Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone.
Jan 9, 2011 · Bill Erwin, a character actor best known for playing an irascible old man on a Seinfeld episode, has died of natural causes aged 96. He died on December 29 in the Los Angeles suburb of Studio City, coincidentally near the old Seinfeld production lot.
