Willis Macon McCalman (December 30, 1932 â€" November 29, 2005) was an
American television, stage and big screen movie actor.Nicknamed
"Sonny", McCalman helped form the Front Street Theatre in his hometown
of Memphis, Tennessee. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S.
Army. Over the course of his acting career McCalman appeared in
various film and TV guest roles, usually in supporting parts, both
dramatic and comedic often as heavies and authoritarian figures. He
got his acting start on Broadway appearing in productions of The Last
of Mrs. Lincoln (1971), An Enemy for the People (1971), and a comedy,
The Playboy Of the Western World.His first Hollywood film role was in
Deliverance (1972). He had supporting parts in The Concorde ...
Airport '79 (1979), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), Fried Green
Tomatoes (1991), and Falling Down (1993). He also appeared in the
Roger Donaldson directed film Marie (1985). He appeared in guest roles
in television shows such as Cheers, Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Lou
Grant, Three's Company, Murder She Wrote as well as such miniseries
and television movies as Roots (1977) and Captains and the Kings
(1976).McCalman retired from acting and returned to Memphis in 1997
after suffering a heart attack. He died in a Memphis hospital in 2005,
one month shy of his 73rd birthday, from complications of a series of
strokes.
American television, stage and big screen movie actor.Nicknamed
"Sonny", McCalman helped form the Front Street Theatre in his hometown
of Memphis, Tennessee. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S.
Army. Over the course of his acting career McCalman appeared in
various film and TV guest roles, usually in supporting parts, both
dramatic and comedic often as heavies and authoritarian figures. He
got his acting start on Broadway appearing in productions of The Last
of Mrs. Lincoln (1971), An Enemy for the People (1971), and a comedy,
The Playboy Of the Western World.His first Hollywood film role was in
Deliverance (1972). He had supporting parts in The Concorde ...
Airport '79 (1979), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), Fried Green
Tomatoes (1991), and Falling Down (1993). He also appeared in the
Roger Donaldson directed film Marie (1985). He appeared in guest roles
in television shows such as Cheers, Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Lou
Grant, Three's Company, Murder She Wrote as well as such miniseries
and television movies as Roots (1977) and Captains and the Kings
(1976).McCalman retired from acting and returned to Memphis in 1997
after suffering a heart attack. He died in a Memphis hospital in 2005,
one month shy of his 73rd birthday, from complications of a series of
strokes.
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