Fred Willard movies

Fred Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American comedian and character actor, known for his improvisational comedy skills.Early lifeWillard was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an only child. His father died unexpectedly when Willard was 11, and his new stepfather was unsympathetic towards Fred. By mutual consent, Willard was sent to military school because of discipline and fighting issues, and later attended the Virginia Military Institute, graduating with a B.A. in English.

His childhood ambition was to be a professional baseball player, and he played the sport both in college and the U.S. Army, where he served for two years. After the Army, he enrolled in acting school in New York, and in due time started a comedy team with a classmate, Vic Grecco.On a 2006 appearance as a guest critic on Ebert & Roeper, he credited the 1956 movie The Court Jester as inspiring him to become a comedic actor.
Willard auditioned alongside Robert Klein for The Second City, which consisted of a nightclub manager and his employee. The audition helped the two secure the job.Willard recently completed a sold-out run of Fred Willard: Alone At Last!, advertised as a one-man show but actually featuring a cast of 10, and received two Los Angeles Artistic Director Awards, for Best Comedy and Best Production.He is an alumnus of The Second City and currently heads a sketch comedy workshop, The MoHo Group. He was a founding member of the improvisational comedy group Ace Trucking Company. Fellow members of Ace included Bill Saluga and Patti Deutsch among others.Willard achieved wider fame as Martin Mull?s impossibly dense sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, on the television shows Fernwood 2Nite, Forever Fernwood, and America 2-Night that parodied the night-time talk shows of the day.

Fred Willard Movies

All movies starring Fred Willard.

• American Wedding
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
• Cat Tale
• Chicken Little
• Date Movie
• Epic Movie
• Fired!
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
• How High
• I Could Never Be Your Woman
• Idle Hands
• Lovewrecked
• Monster House
• I'll Believe You