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Fred Willard brought an innate sense of commitment to his roles, and his demeanor had an innate gentleness.Photograph by Matthew Simmons / Getty

A week ago, while talking with a friend about following one’s instincts, I cited an immortal scene of Fred Willard’s, from Christopher Guest’s 1996 comedy, “Waiting for Guffman.” In it, Willard and Catherine O’Hara play Ron and Sheila Albertson, the gung-ho stars of all the amateur theatre productions in their small Missouri town—“the Lunts of Blaine,” their director calls them. (They’re also travel agents who have never travelled.) Willard, handsome and genial as ever, wears a sports coat, an ascot, a pocket square, and a relaxed smile. “We’re in a glamour profession, being travel agents,” he says, explaining why he might intimidate a fellow-actor. Sheila adds that Ron is also intimidating because he has so much experience. At home, she says, Ron gives her extensive notes, often for an hour or two at a time: “He’s trying to help me to change my instincts, or at least ignore them.” Ron, all affable pomposity, beams at the camera.

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Fred Willard

Four-time Emmy nominee Fred Willard radiates a unique charm that has established him as one of our generation’s most gifted comic actors. A master of sketch comedy, Fred is most heralded for his quick wit and improvisational expertise which he exemplified in over 100 appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Hired by The Second City in 1965 along with Robert Klein, Willard appeared in the theater’s 18th and 19th revues, Off the Road and This and That respectively, both directed by Sheldon Patinkin with legendary Musical Director Fred Kaz.

Willard was a founding member of the classic improv group the Ace Trucking Company. The Ace Trucking Company were regulars on The Tom Jones Show and opened for Tom Jones in Las Vegas.

Willard appeared in over seventy films. His work in Waiting For Guffman, alongside Second City alums Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Don Lake, and Brian Doyle-Murray, earned him an American Comedy Award nod for Funniest Supporting Actor.  For his performance in Best in Show, he won the Boston Film Critics Award, the American Comedy A

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