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Ed Williams

Actor | * 1926 (98) | Santa Clara County, California (United States of America (USA))
Edwin Wallace Williams (born November 26, 1926) is an American actor, who played Ted Olsen on the TV series Police Squad! and in The Naked Gun films. Williams was a broadcasting and speech teacher at Los Angeles City College in Southern California. He retired and then took acting classes. With the help of some contacts, he started acting as a second career. Despite the success of The Naked Gun films, Williams only had minor roles in other movies, such as The Giant of Thunder Mountain (1991) and Carnosaur (1993). ()
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Ed Williams was born on November 26, 1926 in Santa Clara County, California, USA as Edwin Wallace Williams. He is an actor, known for The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), The Naked Gun (1988) and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994).

Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Crime | Drama

Known for these Movies & Shows

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wif ...

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

PG-13

1994 | 3.2/5 | 1h 23min
Comedy, Crime
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George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daug ...

Father of the Bride

PG

1991 | 3.2/5 | 1h 45min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. ...

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

PG-13

1988 | 3.6/5 | 1h 26min
Comedy, Crime
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Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business. ...

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

PG-13

1991 | 3.4/5 | 1h 25min
Comedy, Crime
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Movies with Ed Williams as Actor(11)

as Preacher1995 Kill Shot
as Ted Olsen1994 Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
as Dr. Sterling Raven1993 Carnosaur
as Boss1992 High Strung
as Reverend1991 Father of the Bride
as Priest1991 The Woman Who Sinned
as Ted Olsen1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
as Mr. Macgruder1990 The Giant of Thunder Mountain
as Newcomer1989 Alien Nation
as Reverend Morton1988 Going to the Chapel
as Ted Olsen1988 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

TV Shows/Series with Ed Williams as Actor(3)

as Anthony2004 House
as Dr. Bradley (segment "The Burial")1998 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Ted Olson1982 Police Squad!

Full Name: Ed Williams
Born: 1926 in Santa Clara County, California (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 98 years)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Ed Williams frequently works together with these people:
David Zucker (9x, Crew)
Jim Vickers (6x, Crew)
Jim Abrahams (5x, Crew)
David Shore (5x, Crew)
Peter Blake (5x, Crew)
Jerry Zucker (4x, Crew)
Daniel Sackheim (4x, Crew)
Russel Friend (4x, Crew)
Lawrence Kaplow (4x, Crew)
Robert K. Weiss (4x, Crew)
Thomas L. Moran (4x, Crew)
Ira Newborn (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:159715, Added: 07/06/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024