Bill Macy

Bill Macy was an American actor of television, film and stage, born Wolf Martin Garber in Revere, Massachusetts, and best known as Walter Findlay, the husband opposite Bea Arthur on the CBS sitcom Maude. He drove a cab for a decade before he became Walter Matthau's understudy on Broadway in Once More, with Feeling, in 1958. He joined the original cast of the Off-Broadway revue Oh! Calcutta!, later appearing in its 1972 film version. Norman Lear, impressed by his comic work off Broadway, brought him to Hollywood, where a small part in All in the Family led to Maude, which ran six seasons from 1972 to 1978. His films included The Jerk (1979), My Favorite Year (1982), Analyze This (1999) and The Holiday (2006), and he guest-starred on Seinfeld and L.A. Law. He died in 2019.