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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series
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William Demarest
William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 28, 1983) was an American character actor.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a prolific film and television actor, having worked on over 140 films. He started in show business working in vaudeville,...
Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and appeared in other classic films...
Ben Alexander
Ben Alexander (May 26, 1911 – July 5, 1969) was an Emmy-nominated American motion picture actor, who started out as a child actor in 1915.
Born Nicholas Benton Alexander IV in Goldfield, Nevada and raised in California, Alexander made his screen...
Don DeFore
Donald John DeFore (August 25, 1913 – December 22, 1993) was an American actor who played "the regular guy" and "the good, ol' boy next door" in many films in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was born in 1913 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His father was Joseph...
Cyril Ritchard
Cyril Ritchard (1 December 1897 – 18 December 1977) was an Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director. He is probably best remembered today for his campy performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan...
William Frawley
William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American stage entertainer, screen and television actor. Although Frawley acted in over 100 films, he achieved his greatest fame playing landlord Fred Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy...
Louis Nye
Louis Nye (May 1, 1913 – October 9, 2005) was an American comedy actor.
He was born Louis Neistat in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Joseph Neistat (May 18, 1881-September 1967) and Jennie Sherman (born 1890). His sister was Rose Neistat (born...
Ed Wynn
Ed Wynn (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966) was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.
Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in...
Johnny Crawford
Johnny "John" Ernest Crawford (born March 26, 1946) is an American prolific character actor of stage, singer, and musician. At 12, Crawford arosed to fame for playing Chuck Connors's son, Mark McCain, in The Rifleman (from 1958 to 1963). He also got...
Maurice Gosfield
Maurice Gosfield (January 28 1913 in New York City – October 19 1964 in New York City) was an American comic actor, most famous for his portrayal of Private Doberman on the 1950s sitcom The Phil Silvers Show.
Gosfield also provided the voice for...
Ed Begley
Edward James Begley, Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American actor.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Begley began his career as radio actor while in his teens. He later acted in roles as Sgt. O'Hara in the radio show The Fat Man. Begley...
Barry Jones
Barry Jones (6 March 1893 – 1 May 1981) was an actor seen in British and American films, on American television and on the stage.
Barry Jones was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1893. He started his acting career on the British stage in...
Horace McMahon
Horace McMahon (17 May 1906 in South Norwalk, Connecticut – 17 August 1971 in Norwalk, Connecticut) was an American actor.
McMahone starred in the ABC police series Naked City as Lt. Mike Parker, a gruff, no-nonsense, but warmhearted cop's cop,...
Hurd Hatfield
William Rukard Hurd Hatfield (December 7, 1917 – December 26, 1998) was an American actor.
The son of William Henry Hatfield (died 1954), an attorney who served as deputy attorney general for New York, and his wife, the former Adele Steele, Hatfield...
Paul Ford
Paul Ford (November 2, 1901 – April 12, 1976) was an American actor.
Ford was a well-known character actor who came to specialize in authority figures whose ineptitude and pompous demeanor were played for comic effect. Ford became an "overnight"...
Morey Amsterdam
Morey Amsterdam (December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was a veteran American television actor and comedian, famous for his ready supply of jokes. He is best remembered for his role as Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s....
Frank Gorshin
Frank John Gorshin, Jr. (April 5, 1933 – May 17, 2005) was an American actor and comedian. He was perhaps best known as an impressionist, with many guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show (with host Steve Allen). His most...
Don Knotts
Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role which earned him five Emmy Awards. He also played...
Edward Mulhare
Edward Mulhare (8 April 1923 - 24 May 1997) was an Irish popular television leading man from 1956 to 1995.
Born at 22 Quaker Road, Cork city, County Cork, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers, Mulhare intended to study medicine, but...
Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor.
Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer. He began his career on stage and...
Werner Klemperer
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was a comedic actor, best known for his role as Colonel Klink on the CBS television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes.
Born in Cologne to a musical family, Klemperer was the son of the renowned conductor...
George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an Academy Award-winning American stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his bravura stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in...
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Gale Gordon
Gale Gordon (February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor perhaps best remembered as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil — and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on...
Jack Cassidy
John Joseph Edward “Jack” Cassidy (March 5, 1927 – December 12, 1976) was an American actor of stage, film and screen.
His frequent professional persona was that of an urbane, super-confident egotist with a dramatic flair, much in the manner of...
Michael Constantine
Michael Constantine (born 22 May 1927) is an American actor.
Michael Constantine is an award winning Greek-American actor who was born on 22 May 1927. Constantine was born Gus Efstratiou in Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of Andromache Efstratiou ...
Greg Morris
Francis Gregory Alan Morris (September 27, 1933 – August 27, 1996) was an American television and movie actor.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Morris began his acting career in the 1960s making guest appearances on many TV shows such as The Twilight Zone...
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He received two Oscars...
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Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. Carney portrayed the upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the...
McLean Stevenson
Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. (November 14, 1927 – February 15, 1996), better known as McLean Stevenson, was an American actor most recognized for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H.
Stevenson was born in the town of Normal,...
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel.
Weaver was born William...
Tony Randall
Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor , comic, producer and director.
Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia (née Finston) and Mogscha Rosenberg, who was an art and antiques...
Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974)....
Abe Vigoda
Abraham Charles "Abe" Vigoda (born February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on the sitcom television series Barney Miller from 1975-1977, for his portrayal of Sal...
Ted Knight
Ted Knight (December 7, 1923 – August 26, 1986) was an American actor best known for playing the comedic role of Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush on Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Smails in Caddyshack. Ted Knight has a star on...
Tom Bosley
Thomas Edward Bosley (born October 1, 1927) is an American actor, best known for his starring and supporting roles on the television shows Happy Days, Murder, She Wrote and Father Dowling Mysteries.
Bosley was born in Chicago, Illinois; he is Jewish...
Vic Tayback
Victor "Vic" Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was a New York City-born American actor of Syrian descent.
Tayback moved with his family to Burbank, California, during his teenage years and attended Burbank High School. He ended up living in...
Gary Burghoff
Gary Richard Burghoff (born May 24, 1943) is an American actor, best known for playing the character Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly in the M*A*S*H series and Charlie Brown in the 1967 off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown....
Mike Farrell
Michael Joseph "Mike" Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the popular television series M*A*S*H (1975–83). More recently, Farrell was a producer of Patch Adams (1998) starring...
Max Gail
Maxwell Trowbridge "Max" Gail, Jr. (born 5 April 1943) is an American actor who has starred in stage, television, and film roles. He is best known for his television role as Det. Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz from the sitcom Barney Miller.
Gail was born...
Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940) is an American actor.
Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon, the son of Edna (née Forster) and George Henry Hesseman. His parents divorced when he was five, and he was raised by his mother and stepfather, a...
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (pronounced /ˈniːmɔɪ/; born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is famous for playing the character of Spock on the original Star Trek series, and he reprised the role in...
David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers (born October 31, 1942) is an American actor, voice actor, and musician, noted for his role in the television sitcom M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene...
Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American film and television actor and former President of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. More recently,...
Ron Glass
Ron Glass (born July 10, 1945) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as the witty Detective Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975-1982), and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the science fiction series...
Steve Landesberg
Steve Landesberg (born November 23, 1945 in New York City, New York) is an American actor, comedian and voice actor best known for his role of Arthur P. Dietrich on the ABC sitcom Barney Miller.
Landesberg was born to a milliner mother and a grocery...
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan (born April 10, 1915) is an American television actor. Morgan is perhaps best-known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H (1975-83), Pete Porter on both Pete and Gladys (1960-62) and December Bride (1954-1959), Detective Bill Gannon...
Rene Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (born June 1, 1940) is an American actor, known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the movie version of M*A*S*H and for creating a number of characters in long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson ...
Pat Harrington, Jr.
Pat Harrington, Jr., (born August 13, 1929) is an American actor. He is the son of Pat Harrington, Sr.
Harrington was born Daniel Patrick Harrington, Jr., in New York City, New York. His father was a song and dance man who worked in vaudeville and...
Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American film, television and radio actor. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, Rambo (First Blood – Rambo III), Hot Shots! Part Deux,...
Robert Guillaume
Robert "Bob" Guillaume (born November 30, 1927) is an American stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, as Isaac Jaffe on...
Nicholas Colasanto
Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 - February 12, 1985) was an American actor and television director, known primarily for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the sitcom Cheers. He also appeared in feature films which include Fat City, Family Plot...
John Ratzenberger
John Deszo Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Cliff Clavin in the sitcom Cheers.
Ratzenberger was a house framer living in London when he began his career in the performing arts. His first role...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (born August 18, 1970) is an American television actor, film director, and musician, known primarily for his roles in sitcoms, movies and television. He is best known for his role as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show and as...
Tom Poston
Thomas Gordon "Tom" Poston (October 17, 1921 – April 30, 2007) was an American television and film actor. He starred on television in a career that began in 1950. He appeared as a comic actor, game show panelist, comedy/variety show host, film actor...
George Wendt
George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor, best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show Cheers.
Wendt was born in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois and attended Campion High School in Prairie du...
Peter Scolari
Peter Scolari (born September 12, 1955) is an American television, film and stage actor best known for his roles in the television shows Bosom Buddies (alongside Tom Hanks), Newhart and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show.
Additional television...
Meshach Taylor
Meshach Taylor (born April 11, 1947) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the sitcom Designing Women. He also had a major role on the sitcom Dave's World, playing Sheldon Baylor, and appeared in Buffalo...
Joe Regalbuto
Joseph "Joe" Regalbuto (born August 24, 1949) is an American actor and director best known for his on-screen role as Frank Fontana on the CBS television comedy Murphy Brown. He also starred in the 1986 TV movie Fuzz Bucket and the short-lived series...
Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough (born May 23, 1936) is an American character actor best known for playing the straight-faced anchor Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. In 1990, the role earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy...
Alex Rocco
Alex Rocco (born February 29, 1936) is an American actor. His roles have ranged from comedy to playing gangsters in Mafia movies.
Rocco was born Alexander Federico Petricone, Jr. in Cambridge, Massachusetts but raised in Somerville, Massachusetts,...
