
Bill Erwin
Born December 2, 1914 · Honey Grove, Texas, USA
William Lindsey Erwin was an American film, stage and television actor with over 250 television and film credits. A veteran character actor who appeared in Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Somewhere in Time and Home Alone. He was also a stage manager for Edgar Bergen and a security assistant for Clancy. He is widely known for his 1993 Emmy Award-nominated performance on Seinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Dennis the Menace

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

The Land Before Time

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Inferno

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Somewhere in Time

Forces of Nature

She's Having a Baby

Counterpoint

Elvis

Quest

Home Alone

Man from Del Rio

Night of the Warrior

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

Invitation to Hell

Huckleberry Finn

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Cahoots

The Willies

The Night Runner

Stewardess School

A Crack in the Floor

Chairman of the Board

Boycott

The Shadow on the Window

The Velvet Touch

The Christine Jorgensen Story

Menno's Mind

Just Your Luck

The Magic Bubble

At Home with the Webbers

Art House

The Brady Girls Get Married

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

Stanley's Gig

Cry Baby Killer

Candy Stripe Nurses

Gun Fever

Back To "Somewhere In Time"

Easy Living

Generation

How Awful About Allan

Hard Knox

Silent Assassins

Pardon and Peace

The Entertainers

On Fire

Claire

Hunter

Moonlight

Drop-Out Father

Terror At Black Falls

The Color of Evening

Sixth and Main
TV Shows

Married... with Children

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Lassie

Full House

Everwood

The Andy Griffith Show

Quantum Leap

The Rifleman

Knots Landing

The Fugitive

Maverick

The King of Queens

Falcon Crest

Mannix

The Waltons

The Wild Wild West

The Twilight Zone

The Virginian

The Drew Carey Show

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Get Smart

Have Gun, Will Travel

Mad About You

Robert Montgomery Presents

The Golden Girls

My Name Is Earl

Cheyenne

Rawhide

Hart to Hart

Cannon

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

My Three Sons

Moonlighting

I Love Lucy

Who's the Boss?

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Untouchables

Gunsmoke

Just Shoot Me!

Highway to Heaven

Leave It to Beaver

The F.B.I.

Ben Casey

Highway Patrol

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Burke's Law

The Invaders

Lou Grant

Cybill

Mister Ed

The Rookies

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Fallen Angels

Mayberry R.F.D.
More TV Shows

Growing Pains

The Jeffersons

The Naked Truth

The Texan

Sea Hunt

Punky Brewster

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Trackdown

Burke's Law

Harry and the Hendersons

M Squad

The John Larroquette Show

Johnny Ringo

Arrest and Trial

87th Precinct

Suddenly Susan

Black Saddle

Voyagers!

Law of the Plainsman

Dan August

The Second Hundred Years

Stagecoach West

The Dakotas

Shane

Madman of the People

The Walter Winchell File

The Mommies

Coronado 9

Panic!

The Michael Richards Show

The Man Called X

Peter Loves Mary

My World and Welcome to It

Man with a Camera

Against the Grain

Second Chance

Hallmark Hall of Fame

General Electric Theater

The Louie Show

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Struck by Lightning




