Iggie Wolfington

Iggie Wolfington was an American actor who began his career during the early years of live television and was a life member of The Actors Studio. He grew up in Philadelphia and attended the Bessie V. Hicks School of Drama. On Broadway he was the first to play Marcellus Washburn in the musical The Music Man, a part that brought him a 1958 Tony Award nomination for best featured actor in a musical, and in 1980 he took the role of Mayor Shinn in a short-lived Off-Broadway revival. He was also Chef Ellsworth in the 1952 play Mrs. McThing. He appeared on many television series, among them The Andy Griffith Show, Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Get Smart and The Rockford Files, and his films included Penelope (1966), Herbie Rides Again (1974) and Telefon (1977). He served on the council of the Actors' Equity Association and helped bring the Actors' Fund of America to the West Coast.