Bill Erwin

Bill Erwin was an American character actor with more than 250 film and television credits. Born in Honey Grove, Texas, he studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and earned a master's degree in theater arts at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he also performed on stage. His early films included Man from Del Rio (1956), and he played Jack Nicholson's father in The Cry Baby Killer (1958). His most recognized screen role was Arthur Biehl, the Grand Hotel bellman in Somewhere in Time (1980). He appeared in John Hughes comedies such as She's Having a Baby (1988) and Dennis the Menace (1993), and in The Land Before Time (1988) and Inferno (1999). On television he guest-starred on I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation, while his Emmy-nominated performance as Sid Fields on Seinfeld made him widely known. He won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and four Drama-Logue Awards.