Bill Erwin

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Bill Erwin
Erwin in The Optimist (1983)
Born	William Lindsey Erwin (1914-12-02)December 2, 1914 Honey Grove, Texas, U.S.
Died	December 29, 2010(2010-12-29) (aged 96) Studio City, California, U.S.
Other names	William Erwin William L. Erwin Bill Erwin
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1941–2006
Spouse	Fran MacLachlan ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1995)​
Children	4
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William Lindsey Erwin (December 2, 1914 – December 29, 2010) was an American film, stage and television actor with over 250 television and film credits. A veteran character actor, he is widely known for his 1993 Emmy Award-nominated performance on Seinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields. He also made notable appearances on shows such as I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation. In cinema, his most recognized role is that of Arthur Biehl, a kindly bellman at the Grand Hotel, in Somewhere in Time (1980).^[1]

Erwin was a self-taught cartoonist, published in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Los Angeles. He won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award,^[1] four Drama-Logue Awards, Gilmore Brown Award for Career Achievement, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters' Diamond Circle Award, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Angelo State University.