Bill Macy, the actor who made an indelible imprint on 1970s sitcoms with his portrayal on Norman Lear’s Maude of the loving if always up-for-an-argument Walter Findlay, died last night in Los Angeles. He was 97.
Macy’s death was announced by his producer and manager Matt Beckoff, writing on Facebook “My buddy Bill Macy passed away at 7:13pm tonight. He was a spitfire right up to the end…My condolences to his beautiful wife Samantha Harper Macy.” (See the post below.)
Macy costarred in the 1972-78 All in the Family spin-off series opposite Bea Arthur, who played the outspoken liberal Maude Findlay, a cousin of Family‘s Edith Bunker.
Macy’s post-Maude credits include 1979’s Steve Martin vehicle The Jerk, 1982’s My Favorite Year, Movers & Shakers (1985), Tales from the Darkside (1986), Me, Myself and I (1992), Analyze This (1999), Surviving Christmas (2004), The Holiday (2006), and Mr. Woodcock (2007), among many others.
Numerous TV...
Macy’s death was announced by his producer and manager Matt Beckoff, writing on Facebook “My buddy Bill Macy passed away at 7:13pm tonight. He was a spitfire right up to the end…My condolences to his beautiful wife Samantha Harper Macy.” (See the post below.)
Macy costarred in the 1972-78 All in the Family spin-off series opposite Bea Arthur, who played the outspoken liberal Maude Findlay, a cousin of Family‘s Edith Bunker.
Macy’s post-Maude credits include 1979’s Steve Martin vehicle The Jerk, 1982’s My Favorite Year, Movers & Shakers (1985), Tales from the Darkside (1986), Me, Myself and I (1992), Analyze This (1999), Surviving Christmas (2004), The Holiday (2006), and Mr. Woodcock (2007), among many others.
Numerous TV...
- 10/18/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Bill Macy, best known for playing Bea Arthur’s husband Walter Findlay on the 1970s sitcom “Maude,” has died. He was 97.
“My buddy Bill Macy passed away at 7:13 p.m. tonight,” producer and manager Matt Beckoff wrote in a Facebook post Thursday. “He was a spitfire right up to the end. What an honor to book him for Gilbert Gottfried II Frank Santopadre and Dara Kravitz Gottfried podcast. It really was the cherry on top. He Loved being on that show. My condolences to his beautiful wife Samantha Harper Macy.”
Beckoff did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Also Read: Norman Lear Becomes Oldest Emmy Winner at 97
“Maude,” a spinoff of Norman Lear’s “All in the Family” ran for six seasons on CBS from 1972 to 1978. Along with his parts on those two iconic Lear shows, Macy’s other small-screen credits include “Seinfeld,” “St. Elsewhere,” “The Facts of Life,...
“My buddy Bill Macy passed away at 7:13 p.m. tonight,” producer and manager Matt Beckoff wrote in a Facebook post Thursday. “He was a spitfire right up to the end. What an honor to book him for Gilbert Gottfried II Frank Santopadre and Dara Kravitz Gottfried podcast. It really was the cherry on top. He Loved being on that show. My condolences to his beautiful wife Samantha Harper Macy.”
Beckoff did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Also Read: Norman Lear Becomes Oldest Emmy Winner at 97
“Maude,” a spinoff of Norman Lear’s “All in the Family” ran for six seasons on CBS from 1972 to 1978. Along with his parts on those two iconic Lear shows, Macy’s other small-screen credits include “Seinfeld,” “St. Elsewhere,” “The Facts of Life,...
- 10/18/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Starting with the Sunday, June 12, episode of A&E's sophomore crime drama "The Glades," Florida Department of Law Enforcement homicide Detective Jim Longworth's (Matt Passmore) already complicated life gets even more tangled.
First, he had to leave his native Chicago -- after suffering an embarrassing injury -- because he was wrongly suspected of having an affair with his captain's wife.
During a break in his trailer on the show's set in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Passmore -- who left his native Australia to pursue an acting career -- tells Zap2it, "The one person he got shot in the ass for, was the one person he wasn't involved with.
"When I first had the meeting with [executive producer Clifton Campbell], I said, 'All right, so what's the story here? Oh, so he didn't sleep with the wife, yeah.' He says, 'No, no, I always thought that's a big indicator of how Jim is with people.
First, he had to leave his native Chicago -- after suffering an embarrassing injury -- because he was wrongly suspected of having an affair with his captain's wife.
During a break in his trailer on the show's set in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Passmore -- who left his native Australia to pursue an acting career -- tells Zap2it, "The one person he got shot in the ass for, was the one person he wasn't involved with.
"When I first had the meeting with [executive producer Clifton Campbell], I said, 'All right, so what's the story here? Oh, so he didn't sleep with the wife, yeah.' He says, 'No, no, I always thought that's a big indicator of how Jim is with people.
- 6/12/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Ready for things to get even more awkward between Jim and Callie on The Glades?
As if Callie's husband, Ray (Clayne Crawford), being released from jail isn't enough of a complication for their budding relationship, Jim's ex-partner and ex-girlfriend Detective Samantha Harper (Natalie Cigliuti) will drop by in Season 2 for a case, turning the love triangle into a quadrangle.
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As if Callie's husband, Ray (Clayne Crawford), being released from jail isn't enough of a complication for their budding relationship, Jim's ex-partner and ex-girlfriend Detective Samantha Harper (Natalie Cigliuti) will drop by in Season 2 for a case, turning the love triangle into a quadrangle.
"[She represents] that one person who ...
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- 6/3/2011
- by Joyce Eng
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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