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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

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Home Alone

1990
as Man in Airport

The Land Before Time

1988
as Grandfather

Dennis the Menace

1993
as Edward Little

Man from Del Rio

1956
as Roy Higgens

Stanley's Gig

2000
as Jules

Hard Knox

1984
as Gen. Garfield

Fight for the Title

1957
as Newspaper Man

The Willies

1990
as Old Man

Somewhere in Time

1980
as Arthur Biehl

She's Having a Baby

1988
as Grandfather

Invitation to Hell

1984
as Walt Henderson

Silent Assassins

1988
as Dr. London

Drop-Out Father

1982
as Grandpa

The Velvet Touch

1948
as Howard Forman (as William L. Erwin)

Inferno

1999
as Eli Hamilton