By Carmel Dagan Staff Writer Fred Willard, the comic actor known for his genial but dunderheaded characters, has died. He was 86. Though most sources reported that he was born in 1939, some asserted that he was actually six years older, with a 1933 birthdate.
Willard was an astonishingly ubiquitous presence especially on TV but also in movies for decades, though almost always in small but memorable roles.
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