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Bill Erwin

Born William Lindsey Erwin, Bill Erwin played over 250 roles in a career that lasted nearly 70 years. He was a self-taught cartoonist whose work was published in the New Yorker, Playboy and Los Angeles magazine, and was the first to portray the voice of Grandpa Longneck in The Land Before Time

English

Dennis the Menace

1993
as Edward Little

Drop-Out Father

1982
as Grandpa

Fight for the Title

1957
as Newspaper Man

Hard Knox

1984
as Gen. Garfield

Home Alone

1990
as Man in Airport

Inferno

1999
as Eli Hamilton

Invitation to Hell

1984
as Walt Henderson

Man from Del Rio

1956
as Roy Higgens

She's Having a Baby

1988
as Grandfather

Silent Assassins

1988
as Dr. London

Somewhere in Time

1980
as Arthur Biehl

Stanley's Gig

2000
as Jules

The Land Before Time

1988
as Grandfather

The Velvet Touch

1948
as Howard Forman (as William L. Erwin)

The Willies

1990
as Old Man

Guest Star

Episode Just the Ten of Us
A Christmas Story
1988
Episode Gunsmoke
A Hat
1967
Episode Barnaby Jones
A Little Glory, a Little Death
1973
Episode The Untouchables
A Seat on the Fence
1960
Episode Gunsmoke
Alias Festus Haggen
1972
Episode Gunsmoke
Bently
1964
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
Birds of a Feather
1958
Episode The Untouchables
Blues for a Gone Goose
1963
Episode The Bigelow Theatre
Coals of Fire
1951
Episode Saints and Sinners
Daddy's Girl
1962
Episode Growing Pains
Dance Fever (2)
1988
Episode Colt .45
Dead Reckoning
1958
Episode M Squad
Dead or Alive
1958
Episode The Fugitive
Death Is the Door Prize
1966
Episode The Jeffersons
Death Smiles on a Dry Cleaner (1)
1982
Episode M Squad
Death by Adoption
1959
Episode Cannon
Death of a Hunter
1974
Episode The Drew Carey Show
Drew vs. Mimi, Part II
1997
Episode Barnaby Jones
Echo of a Murder
1973
Episode David Niven Show
Fortune's Folly
1959
Episode The Invaders
Genesis
1967
Episode Cannon
Girl in the Electric Coffin
1971
Episode Tombstone Territory
Grave Near Tombstone
1959
Episode Gunsmoke
Hackett
1970
Episode Punky Brewster
Hands Across the Halls
1987
Episode Hart to Hart
Highland Fling
1983
Episode Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Hit and Run
1957
Episode Knots Landing
House of Cards
1991
Episode Quantum Leap
Hurricane
1991
Episode Coronado 9
I Want to be Hated
1960
Episode Gunsmoke
In Performance of Duty
1974
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the New Start
1961
Episode Pig Sty
Iowa vs. New York
1995
Episode The John Larroquette Show
Jumping Off the Wagon
1993
Episode Zane Grey Theater
Let The Man Die
1958
Episode State Trooper
Madman on the Mountain
1957
Episode Growing Pains
Mandingo
1989
Episode Married... with Children
Master the Possibilities
1988
Episode Pig Sty
May I Borrow a Cup of Death
1995
Episode Growing Pains
Meet the Seavers
1991
Episode Growing Pains
Mike and Julie's Wedding
1989
Episode Who's the Boss?
Mona Gets Pinned
1984
Episode The Twilight Zone
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
1959
Episode Monk
Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man
2003
Episode My World and Welcome to It
Nobody Ever Kills Dragons Anymore
1969
Episode The Guns of Will Sonnett
Of Lasting Summers and Jim Sonnett
1967
Episode E/R (1984)
Only a Nurse
1984
Episode Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Operation Blackout
1994
Episode Highway Patrol (1955)
Phony Insurance
1955
Episode Falcon Crest
Power Play
1984
Episode Leave It to Beaver
Price of Fame
1959
Episode Grace Under Fire
Quentin Gets His Gun
1997
Episode The Golden Girls
Questions and Answers
1992
Episode Star Trek: The Next Generation
Remember Me
1990
Episode Gunsmoke
Romeo
1957
Episode The Dakotas
Sanctuary At Crystal Springs
1963
Episode The Fugitive
Scapegoat
1965
Episode The Californians
Second Trial
1958
Episode Gunsmoke
Shadler
1973
Episode Everwood
Sick
2004
Episode Just the Ten of Us
Simple Gifts
1989
Episode Gunsmoke
Slocum
1968
Episode The King of Queens
Tank Heaven
2004
Episode Who's the Boss?
Thanksgiving at Mrs. Rossini's
1985
Episode Growing Pains
The Anniversary That Never Was
1986
Episode Johnny Ringo
The Arrival
1959
Episode Sea Hunt
The Big Dive
1958
Episode The Fugitive
The Breaking of the Habit
1967
Episode The Untouchables
The Butcher's Boy
1963
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
1959
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Mythical Monkeys
1960
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Violent Vest
1961
Episode The Untouchables
The Cooker in the Sky
1962
Episode Cannon
The Dead Samaritan
1973
Episode The F.B.I.
The Deadly Gift
1971
Episode The Texan
The Dishonest Posse
1959
Episode The Texan
The Easterner
1958
Episode Maverick
The Forbidden City
1961
Episode Sugarfoot
The Ghost
1958
Episode Law of the Plainsman
The Gibbet
1959
Episode The Dukes of Hazzard
The Great Bank Robbery
1981
Episode Wagon Train
The Hunter Malloy Story
1959
Episode The Texan
The Invisible Noose
1960
Episode Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Mickey Farmer Case
1957
Episode Get Smart
The Mysterious Dr. T
1967
Episode Seinfeld
The Old Man
1993
Episode High Mountain Rangers
The Only Place To Live
1988
Episode Harry and the Hendersons
The Outing
1992
Episode The Rifleman
The Pet
1959
Episode Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Pete Rocco Case (a.k.a. Prison Break)
1957
Episode Mannix
The Playground
1969
Episode The F.B.I.
The Plunderers
1966
Episode Dallas
The Prodigal
1982
Episode Maverick
The Resurrection of Joe November
1960
Episode Living Single
The Shake-Up
1995
Episode Gunsmoke
The Squaw
1961
Episode The Naked Truth
The Unsinkable Nora Wilde
1997
Episode So Little Time
The Volunteer
2002
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
The Wager
1959
Episode Stoney Burke
The Wanderer
1962
Episode Man with a Camera
The Warning
1958
Episode The West Wing
The Women of Qumar
2001
Episode Zane Grey Theater
Time Of Decision
1957
Episode Live Shot
Towering Infernos
1995
Episode My Name Is Earl
Van Hickey
2006
Episode Growing Pains
Viva Las Vegas
1991
Episode Growing Pains
Weekend at Mike's
1990
Episode Cheyenne
West of the River
1956
Episode Suddenly Susan
What a Card
1997
Episode Ben Casey
When You See an Evil Man
1962
Episode Just Shoot Me!
Where's Poppa?
2001
Episode Just the Ten of Us
Who Cut the Cheese?
1989
Episode Burke's Law
Who Killed Purity Mather?
1963
Episode Who's the Boss?
Yellow Submarine
1987