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Fred Willard: Biography

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Birth Place: Shaker Heights, OH
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/18/1939, Virgo
Profession: Actor; comedian

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Fred Willard: TV Guide News

Episode Recap: "Something's Up There" | Back to You | 11/15/2007
The good folks at WURG sure know their slapstick. It's been quite some time since I've seen good physical comedy on television, so what a thrill to see it make a comeback. Good slapstick, good slapstick. Now let's get to the better banter.I'm not sure we've had an episode yet that puts the whole crew in one situation, so this week was a change of pace. Little Gracie's 11th-birthday party was basically over before it started, because the only one of the six adults there who had steeled herself to find and catch the raccoon in the attic was Kelly, and Chuck wasn't about to let her do it. I understood his reasoning (Kelly's done everything for Gracie and Chuck wants to contribute, even if she doesn’t know he's her father), but that part felt a little far-fetched. Chuck strikes me as the kind who'll let anyone take a fall for him — in poor Ryan's case, quite literally — even Kelly, so why take a stand on this thing that he was obviously scared of?Either way, the guys on... read more
Episode Recap: "Gracie's Bully" | Back to You | 11/8/2007
There is nothing more terrifying than having your 10-year-old classmates meet one (or both) of your parents, and I know this from experience. I felt for poor Gracie Carr, who so obviously wanted both her bully and her mother to disappear from this class trip to the station. She was probably thinking that the only upside was not having to have class.If only Kelly and Chuck knew that they were probably just making the situation worse for their daughter by wanting to confront the bully, whether through a "conflict resolution" session or the terrifying way that Kelly ended up going about it. (I'm well out of elementary school, but if tomorrow Patricia Heaton said to me, "I will come into your room while you are sleeping and I will rip your head off," I would probably faint.) As soon as Xander Tucker gets over his fear of Kelly, he's going to start bullying Gracie sevenfold. Perhaps by then Chuck will no longer be blinded by Xander's gorgeous, divorced mother and will actually be able... read more
Episode Recap: "A Night of Possibilities" | Back to You | 10/18/2007
Is it 1994? I think it must be, because lately Tia Carrere is popping up everywhere — well, if not everywhere, at least on two shows I cover, and I only cover three, so if she shows up on Friday Night Lights, I know something's up. Between her hanging out with Larry David (cocreator of Seinfeld, coincidentally on in 1994) and Kelsey Grammer (Frasier, also on in 1994) in recent weeks, I just have to wonder if I've been witness to a time warp. She did a cute job tonight, playing a woman — not a hooker, apparently — who almost managed to seduce Chuck, so it's a shame she was rather underutilized.Of course, had she actually managed to "take a ride on the Chuck wagon," as Montana so delicately put it, we wouldn't have been able to see that Chuck is, at heart, a decent guy. Sure, he only took Ryan out to dinner to prove to Kelly that he didn't donate the rude gene to Gracie, and yes, he did repeatedly try to hurry up and ditch this dinner to be with Carrere's unnamed... read more
Back to You's Fred Willard Is the Life of the Party | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 10/17/2007
On Back to You (Wednesdays, 8 pm/ET, Fox), the Kelsey Grammer/Patricia Heaton sitcom vehicle, Fred Willard plays freewheeling sportscaster Marsh McGinley, whose lead foot alarms a coworker tonight when they carpool together. Marsh is the latest in a gallery of grinning goofballs that Willard has given us over the course of a career that spans 40 years. TV Guide: What do you enjoy about Marsh?Fred Willard: I love it that he's a sports guy and that he says whatever comes to his mind. He doesn't . read more
Episode Recap: "A Gentleman Always Leads" | Back to You | 10/11/2007
Well, I'll say one thing: This is the first time in recent memory I've heard the phrase, "Recorded in front of a live studio audience" outside of a 20-year-old rerun. In fact, it made me think I was too hard on last week's episode. It's a retro show in its own way, and perhaps I needed that jolt of perspective that Kelsey Grammer's little intro gave me.The newsroom of WURG certainly was all a-twitter this week. After Chuck overheard some network brass (who were in Pittsburgh for a program at Carnegie Mellon on "The changing face of network news") talking about how he's gone from one of the biggest markets in the country to being Kelly's sidekick — even going so far as to say, "I'd put a gun to my head" — Chuck decides to take the lead story for the day's news: A family that went missing while camping was finally found. To say he steals it out from under Kelly's nose wouldn't even be an overstatement, and he leaves her with the less enviable, "Building on fire!"... read more

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Fred Willard: Photos

Back to You, Patricia Heaton, Fred Willard courtesy Carin Baer/Fox

back to you, Josh Gad, Ty Burrell, Fred Willard, Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton, Laura Marano, Ayda Field courtesy Sam Jones/FOX

back to you, Fred Willard courtesy Sam Jones/FOX

Stargate SG1, Fred Willard courtesy Eike Schroter/Sci Fi Channel Photo

tv watercooler, Fred Willard, Drew Lachey courtesy Vince Bucci/Getty Images for TV Guide Channel Studios

tv watercooler, Fred Willard courtesy Vince Bucci/Getty Images for TV Guide Channel Studios

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Fred Willard: TV Listings

Fred Willard: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures (Voice - Bus Driver Bob)	2008	TV Show Series
I Could Never Be Your Woman (Actor - Marty)	2008	Movie
Wall-E (Actor)	2008	Movie
Back to You (Actor - Marsh McGinley)	2007	TV Show Series
Epic Movie (Actor - Aslo)	2007	Movie