He appeared on the premiere of the show in 1975 as well as in 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and as the voice of the valet on 'Archer.' George Coe, an original member of
Saturday Night Live's Not Ready for Prime Time Players who also appeared in such films as
Kramer vs. Kramer and
The Stepford Wives, has died. He was 86.
The veteran character actor, who provided the voice of Woodhouse, the heroin-addicted valet in the FX animated series
Archer, died Saturday in Santa Monica following a long illness.
Coe received an Academy Award nomination in 1969 for his 15-minute short film,
The Dove, a parody of
Ingmar Bergman films that he starred in, produced and directed.
In the 1960s, the New York native, who graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, starred in the original Broadway productions of
What Makes Sammy Run? based on the novel by
Budd Schulberg, and
Jerry Herman’s
Mame, starring
Angela Lansbury.
He also performed in
Steven Sondheim's
Company, which debuted on the Great White Way in 1970, and
Harold Prince’s
On the Twentieth Century in 1978.
Coe appeared on
SNL's premiere episode in October 1975 and on the NBC late-night show several other times in the first season as authority figures in voiceovers and small roles.
Coe portrayed
Dustin Hoffman’s advertisement agency boss in
Robert Benton’s Oscar best picture
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and he was Claude Axhelm, one of the manipulating husbands, in
The Stepford Wives (1975).
Coe had regular roles on such TV shows as
Working,
L.A. Law and
Max Headroom and showed up on episodes of
The West Wing,
Hill Street Blues,
Moonlighting,
Grey’s Anatomy,
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
The Golden Girls,
Two and a Half Men and
Wilfred.
His other film credits include
The First Deadly Sin (1980),
The End of Innocence (1990),
The Mighty Ducks (1992), as
Adam Sandler’s father in
Funny People (2009) and
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), as the voice of the Autobot Wheeljack.
Coe, a former vice president for the SAG national board of directors, received the guild’s Ralph Morgan Award in 2009.
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