
Bill Erwin
Department: 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.
Known For

Home Alone
1990

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
2019

Inferno
1999

The Color of Evening
1990

Silent Assassins
1988

The Velvet Touch
1948

Somewhere in Time
1980

Invitation to Hell
1984

How Awful About Allan
1970

Man from Del Rio
1956

Ghost Dancing
1983

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994

Generation
1985

Counterpoint
1967

The Land Before Time
1988

At Home with the Webbers
1993

Stewardess School
1986

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
1981

Forces of Nature
1999

The Brady Girls Get Married
1981

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995

On Fire
1987

Moonlight
1982

Under the Yum-Yum Tree
1963

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987

The Shadow on the Window
1957

Elvis
1979

Stanley's Gig
2000

Huckleberry Finn
1978

The Night Runner
1957

Fight for the Title
1957

The Entertainers
1991

Hard Knox
1984

Night of the Warrior
1991

The Willies
1990

The Christine Jorgensen Story
1970

She's Having a Baby
1988

Gun Fever
1958

Drop-Out Father
1982

Just Your Luck
1996

Quest
1984

Cry Baby Killer
1958

Easy Living
1949

Sixth and Main
1977

Candy Stripe Nurses
1974

Dennis the Menace
1993

Chairman of the Board
1998

Art House
1998

A Crack in the Floor
2001

Cahoots
2001

Terror At Black Falls
1962

Hunter
1973

Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000

Claire
1956

Menno's Mind
1997

The Magic Bubble
1993

The Sunrise Gun
1959

Pardon and Peace
1983

Boycott
2001

Growing Pains
1985

Falcon Crest
1981

The Drew Carey Show
1995

The Andy Griffith Show
1960

Mad About You
1992

Burke's Law
1963

Cheyenne
1955

My World and Welcome to It
1969

Trackdown
1957

The Rookies
1972

Who's the Boss?
1984

Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

The F.B.I.
1965

Monk
2002

My Name Is Earl
2005

Everwood
2002

The Jeffersons
1975

Moonlighting
1985

Punky Brewster
1984

Mannix
1967

Knots Landing
1979

Quantum Leap
1989

Perry Mason
1957

Gunsmoke
1955

The King of Queens
1998

Full House
1987

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993

Lassie
1954

Cannon
1971

Man with a Camera
1958

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Get Smart
1965

The Twilight Zone
1959

Fallen Angels
1993

The Waltons
1972

Sea Hunt
1958

Leave It to Beaver
1957

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Rawhide
1959

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

The Mommies
1993

Highway Patrol
1955

The Fugitive
1963

The Virginian
1962

High Mountain Rangers
1988

Lux Video Theatre
1950

The Fugitive
1963

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957

The Fugitive
1963

M Squad
1957

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Black Saddle
1959

The Dakotas
1963

Ben Casey
1961

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967

Law of the Plainsman
1959

The Texan
1958

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Johnny Ringo
1959

The Michael Richards Show
2000

State Trooper
1956

Coronado 9
1960

Panic!
1957

Shane
1966

The Man Called X
1956

Peter Loves Mary
1960

Struck by Lightning
1979

Maverick
1957

The West Wing
1999

Seinfeld
1989

Married... with Children
1987

Growing Pains
1985

Growing Pains
1985

Growing Pains
1985

Growing Pains
1985

Growing Pains
1985

Growing Pains
1985

The F.B.I.
1965

M Squad
1957

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

The Twilight Zone
1959

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Mayberry R.F.D.
1968

Perry Mason
1957

Perry Mason
1957

Perry Mason
1957

The Twilight Zone
1959

Perry Mason
1957

The Wild Wild West
1965

Maverick
1957

Maverick
1957

Against the Grain
1993

Second Chance
1987

Burke's Law
1994

My Three Sons
1960

Madman of the People
1994

The Naked Truth
1995

Suddenly Susan
1996

The John Larroquette Show
1993

Harry and the Hendersons
1991

The Invaders
1967

I Love Lucy
1951

Dan August
1970

General Electric Theater
1953

Peter Loves Mary
1960

Trackdown
1957

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997

87th Precinct
1961

Lou Grant
1977

The Golden Girls
1985

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Just Shoot Me!
1997

The Untouchables
1959

The Waltons
1972

The Rifleman
1958

The Walter Winchell File
1957

State Trooper
1956

Arrest and Trial
1963

Gunsmoke
1955

Stagecoach West
1960

The Greatest Show on Earth
1963

Hart to Hart
1979

Voyagers!
1982

The Untouchables
1959

Highway to Heaven
1984

The Second Hundred Years
1967

Mister Ed
1961

Cybill
1995

The Louie Show
1996