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Fred Willard Biography

Frederick Charles Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor and writer, best known for his improvisational comedy. He is known for his roles in the Rob Reiner mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap, the Christopher Guest mockumentary films Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots, and the Anchorman films. He is an alumnus of The Second City. He received three Emmy nominations for his recurring role on the TV series Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert Barone's father-in-law, Hank MacDougall. In 2010 he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on the ABC TV series Modern Family as Phil Dunphy's father, Frank Dunphy.

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I'll look through a script, and if there's a lot of night shooting I tend not to want to do it. If there's huge party scenes and I'll go through a few pages and say "Well, at least I'm not in this," then the last page my character walks in and says something, I say, "Uh oh, that's going to be three days on the set sitting around drinking coffee at the craft-service table. " Unless it's a great part. All in all if it's a great part you'll do it and I'll say, "Well, I'm gonna be on the set for three days. "

Coffee, Drinking, Party, Shooting, Unless

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

Earrings, Like, Pirate, Years

I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.

Cutting, Fit, Make, Shoulder, Thinking, Work

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Admire, Awe, Fear, Watch, Watches

I have friends who will say, "Oh you gotta come and see our show. " And the first thing I say is, "Is it sketch or improv?" I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show. I love sketch; it's my favorite form. But if it's all improv, they're either very good and it's annoying how good they are and it makes you feel bad, or they're not too good then you're sweating for them. And you don't want to sweat for them, see actors repeating each other's lines.

Annoying, Love, My Favorite, Sketch, Sweating, Very Good

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

Cleveland, Hometown, Indians, Narrow, Rich

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

Happenings, Like, Movie, Movies, Pleasure, Work

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and. . . my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

Hair, Journey, Saw, Think, Thinking

I like to know who I'm going to be working with, so that I can think about them.

Know, Like, Think, Thinking, Working

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off

Background, Ensemble, Fun, Know, Scenes, Way

I did Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. It was a sequence where the president got captured and they made a doppelgänger of the president who was kind of goofy. They were Second City people who were the producers and writers, and they told my agent, "Well, we know Fred can do the kind of goofy, but we're not sure he can do be the straight president, kind of the Clinton-esque. " So I really got my back up and I called my agent and I said, "Goddammit, I insist that I go in and read. " And I did a great job and I got the part.

Adventure, Captured, People, President, Superman

Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara. . . I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

Actresses, Comedy, Country, Everybody, Thinking