Stage and Screen Actor Bill Erwin Dies at 96

Emmy-nominated actor Bill Erwin died of age-related causes in Studio City on December 29, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 96.

Erwin had a long stage career, performing both in New York and in California. He wrote and starred in the one-man show Twisted Twain, and he received a 1983 Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for a production of Old Friends at the Actors Forum.

Additional honors included four Drama-Logue Awards, Gilmore Brown Award for Career Achievement, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters’ Diamond Circle Award, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Angelo State University.

He received an Emmy nomination for his role as Sid Fields on NBC’s Seinfeld, and additional film and television credits included Somewhere in Time, I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, Perry Mason, Highway to Heaven, and Growing Pains.

He is survived by his children Mike, Timothy, Lindsey and Kelly; eight grandchildren; a great-grandson; sister Mary Gene Cosper; and nephews Ron and Don Cosper.