George Coe (May 10, 1929- July 18, 2015) was an American actor.
You might be able to win a bar bet (or TV trivia contest) if you know that Coe was an original cast member of NBC's long-running sketch show, Saturday Night Live. You see, when the show premiered, Coe was listed as one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Playersnote , because NBC wanted an older, more established actor to contrast the young, raucous cast it had at the time. Coe was soon dropped from the listed cast when Lorne Michaels figured out that he wasn't really necessary, but he still stuck around for most of the first season, mainly filling older male character parts when necessary, doing voiceovers on commercial parodies, and playing Walter Winchell in a parody of The Untouchables. Basically he was the show's first "featured player", before that designation was formally introduced in season 5.
Coe is more remembered for his long career as a character actor, including providing the voice of Archer's put-upon butler, Woodhouse, on the FX animated spy parody sitcom Archer.
He died in 2015 after a long illness.
Film Roles:
- The Dove as Victor (short film)(also directed)
- Kramer vs. Kramer as Jim O'Connor
- Bustin' Loose as Dr. Wilson T. Renfew
- Blind Date as Harry Gruen
- Best Seller as Graham
- Cousins as Phil
- The Mighty Ducks as Judge Weathers
- Funny People as George's dad
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Que/Wheeljack (voice)
- Wrinkles as Miguel
Television Roles
- Somerset as Leo Kurtz #1 (1971-1972)
- Saturday Night Live as various (1975-1976)
- Hill Street Blues as Benjamin Fisk (1 episode)
- Moonlighting as Lou LaSalle (1 episode)
- Family Ties as Justin Phillips (1 episode)
- Simon & Simon as Nolan Scott (1 episode)
- Dallas as Fritz Longley (1 episode)
- L.A. Law as Judge Wallace R. Vance
- thirtysomething as Ted Murdoch
- Magnum, P.I. as William Wainwright (1 episode)
- The Golden Girls as Al (1 episode)
- Matlock as Dr. Lucas Sinclair (1 episode)
- Murphy Brown as Theodore (1 episode)
- Murder, She Wrote as Andrew Thayer/Martin Bergman (2 episodes)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Chancellor Durken (1 episode)
- Columbo, episode "Murder, a Self-Portrait"
- Night Court as Peter Collingswood (1 episode)
- Law & Order as Lee Hastings (1 episode)
- New York Undercover as Mr. Braddock (1 episode)
- The Pretender as Dr. Nicholas Haring (1 episode)
- The Practice as Judge Walters (1 episode)
- The Nanny as Ernest (1 episode)
- Working (1997) as Peter Baines
- Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place as Mr. Belt (1 episode)
- The Lone Gunmen as Bertram Byers
- Becker as Mr. Spector (1 episode)
- The West Wing as Sen. Howard Stackhouse (2001-2002)
- Smallville as William Clark (1 episode)
- Crossing Jordan as Warren Lauer (1 episode)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm as General Manager (2002-2007)
- The Division (2001) as Joe Marks (1 episode)
- Judging Amy as Judge (1 episode)
- Gilmore Girls as Grandpa Huntzberger (2005)
- NUMB3RS as Steven Logan (1 episode)
- Cold Case as Bill Simmons (1 episode)
- Celebrity Deathmatch as Albert Einstein/Bud Selig (2006-2007)
- Bones as Father William Dolan (1 episode)
- The King of Queens as Father Biskup (1 episode)
- Private Practice as Stan (1 episode)
- Nip/Tuck as Dr. Joshua Lee (1 episode)
- Supernatural as Pat (1 episode)
- Grey's Anatomy as Ed Bullard (1 episode)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Tee Watt Kaa (1 episode)
- Archer as Woodhouse (2009-2015, 2019 posthumous recording)
- Wilfred as Gene
- The Legend of Korra as Toza (2012)
- Two and a Half Men as Victor (1 episode)
