Jason Wingreen Biography

Fast Facts

• Served in the U․S․ Army Air Forces and was stationed in Europe during World War II
• Was one of the founders of the New York City theater company Circle in the Square
• Originally wanting to be a sportswriter, he discovered acting while attending Brooklyn College and later got his first job in the industry at a marionette company
• Quote: "[on "All in the Family" and "Archie Bunker's Place"] "We'd arrive on Tuesday morning, we'd sit around, read the script․ We'd start laughing in the morning and laugh until 5 o'clock, when we'd quit․ I mean, how could you not like it?""
• A character actor for more than five decades, he appeared on both stage and screen from the 1940s to the 1990s in films like "Airplane!" and shows like "Seinfeld" and "Star Trek․"
• Best known for playing Harry Snowden in "All in the Family" and "Archie Bunker's Place" and as the original voice of the "Star Wars" villain Boba Fett
• Although "The Empire Strikes Back," the "Star Wars" film in which he voiced the character Boba Fett, was released in 1980, his involvement in the series wasn't widely known about until the Star Wars Insider magazine did a piece on him in 2000