George Coe was an actor and comedian best known for being one of the original members of Saturday Night Live's Not Ready for Prime Time Players. He appeared on the premiere episode in 1975 and several times thereafter in a variety of small roles.
Coe got his start in theater in the 1960s after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He performed in the original Broadway productions of What Makes Sammy Run? and Mame, starring Angela Lansbury. His other stage credits included Steven Sondheim’s Company and Harold Prince’s On the Twentieth Century.
In 1969 Coe received an Academy Award nomination for his 15-minute short film The Dove, an Ingmar Bergman parody, which Coe starred in, produced and directed. He also appeared in several feature films, most notably Kramer vs. Kramer (as Dustin Hoffman’s boss) and The Stepford Wives (as one of the husbands), as well as The First Deadly Sin, The End of Innocence, The Mighty Ducks and Funny People.
His work in television included appearances in the series Goodnight, Beantown; Hill Street Blues; Remington Steele; Family Ties; The Paper Chase; Dallas; Magnum, P.I.; The Golden Girls; The Tracey Ullman Show; Columbo; Matlock; Murphy Brown; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Night Court; L.A. Law; Nurses; Murder, She Wrote; Law & Order; Home Improvement; The Nanny; The West Wing; Becker; Smallville; Cold Case; The King of Queens; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Nip/Tuck; Grey's Anatomy; Two and a Half Men and his final credit, the FX animated series Archer. In the latter, he provided the voice of recurring character Woodhouse.
George Coe was an actor and comedian best known for being one of the original members of Saturday Night Live's Not Ready for Prime Time Players. He appeared on the premiere episode in 1975 and several times thereafter in a variety of small roles.
Coe got his start in theater in the 1960s after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He performed in the original Broadway productions of What Makes Sammy Run? and Mame, starring Angela Lansbury. His other stage credits included Steven Sondheim’s Company and Harold Prince’s On the Twentieth Century.
In 1969 Coe received an Academy Award nomination for his 15-minute short film The Dove, an Ingmar Bergman parody, which Coe starred in, produced and directed. He also appeared in several feature films, most notably Kramer vs. Kramer (as Dustin Hoffman’s boss) and The Stepford Wives (as one of the husbands), as well as The First Deadly Sin, The End of Innocence, The Mighty Ducks and Funny People.
His work in television included appearances in the series Goodnight, Beantown; Hill Street Blues; Remington Steele; Family Ties; The Paper Chase; Dallas; Magnum, P.I.; The Golden Girls; The Tracey Ullman Show; Columbo; Matlock; Murphy Brown; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Night Court; L.A. Law; Nurses; Murder, She Wrote; Law & Order; Home Improvement; The Nanny; The West Wing; Becker; Smallville; Cold Case; The King of Queens; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Nip/Tuck; Grey's Anatomy; Two and a Half Men and his final credit, the FX animated series Archer. In the latter, he provided the voice of recurring character Woodhouse.
He also served as a vice president for the Screen Actors Guild national board of directors.
Coe died July 18, 2015, in Santa Monica, California. He was 86.
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