Bill Erwin
Acting
Biography
William Lindsey Erwin was an American film, stage and television actor with over 250 television and film credits. A veteran character actor who appeared in Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Somewhere in Time and Home Alone. He was also a stage manager for Edgar Bergen and a security assistant for Clancy. He is widely known for his 1993 Emmy Award-nominated performance on Seinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields.
As actor 164
Perry Mason
1957
Married... with Children
1987
The West Wing
1999
Lassie
1954
Monk
2002
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
Seinfeld
1989
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Quantum Leap
1989
The Rifleman
1958
Full House
1987
The Fugitive
1963
The Drew Carey Show
1995
Falcon Crest
1981
Everwood
2002
Mad About You
1992
The King of Queens
1998
Get Smart
1965
Maverick
1957
I Love Lucy
1951
The Waltons
1972
Knots Landing
1979
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Virginian
1962
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
Highway Patrol
1955
Mannix
1967
The Wild Wild West
1965
The Golden Girls
1985
Who's the Boss?
1984
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Hart to Hart
1979
Highway to Heaven
1984
Just Shoot Me!
1997
My Name Is Earl
2005
The Untouchables
1959
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Rawhide
1959
Cheyenne
1955
Leave It to Beaver
1957
My Three Sons
1960
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Moonlighting
1985
Lou Grant
1977
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Burke's Law
1963
Gunsmoke
1955
Cannon
1971
The John Larroquette Show
1993
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997
Growing Pains
1985
Mister Ed
1961
The Jeffersons
1975
The F.B.I.
1965
Cybill
1995
The Invaders
1967
Punky Brewster
1984
The Rookies
1972
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
Ben Casey
1961
Harry and the Hendersons
1991
The Texan
1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968
Sea Hunt
1958
M Squad
1957
Suddenly Susan
1996
State Trooper
1956
Law of the Plainsman
1959
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Trackdown
1957
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987
Fallen Angels
1993
The Naked Truth
1995
Dennis the Menace
1993
Voyagers!
1982
87th Precinct
1961
The Land Before Time
1988
Black Saddle
1959
Johnny Ringo
1959
Arrest and Trial
1963
Burke's Law
1994
Shane
1966
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Man Called X
1956
Stagecoach West
1960
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Dan August
1970
Man with a Camera
1958
The Mommies
1993
The Dakotas
1963
My World and Welcome to It
1969
Panic!
1957
Somewhere in Time
1980
Coronado 9
1960
Forces of Nature
1999
The Michael Richards Show
2000
Madman of the People
1994
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
The Second Hundred Years
1967
Peter Loves Mary
1960
The Walter Winchell File
1957
Inferno
1999
Counterpoint
1967
Second Chance
1987
She's Having a Baby
1988
Against the Grain
1993
The Louie Show
1996
General Electric Theater
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
High Mountain Rangers
1988
Stewardess School
1986
Quest
1984
Elvis
1979
Jet Pilot
1957
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Struck by Lightning
1979
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
1977
Huckleberry Finn
1978
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963
Cahoots
2001
Man from Del Rio
1956
The Willies
1990
Invitation to Hell
1984
A Crack in the Floor
2001
Just Your Luck
1996
Easy Living
1949
The Velvet Touch
1948
Chairman of the Board
1998
Boycott
2001
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
2019
Night of the Warrior
1991
Drop-Out Father
1982
Menno's Mind
1997
Ghost Dancing
1983
Home Alone
1990
Silent Assassins
1988
The Christine Jorgensen Story
1970
Claire
1956
The Magic Bubble
1993
At Home with the Webbers
1993
The Night Runner
1957
Cry Baby Killer
1958
Art House
1998
On Fire
1987
Hard Knox
1984
Gun Fever
1958
The Brady Girls Get Married
1981
The Shadow on the Window
1957
The Entertainers
1991
Sixth and Main
1977
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000
Generation
1985
Candy Stripe Nurses
1974
Hunter
1973
Moonlight
1982
How Awful About Allan
1970
Pardon and Peace
1983
Terror At Black Falls
1962
Stanley's Gig
2000
Fight for the Title
1957
The Color of Evening
1990