Ed Williams | |
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Born | San Jose, California, U.S.[1] | November 26, 1926
Occupation(s) | Actor, comedian |
Years active | 1941–2010 |
Notable work |
Edwin Wallace Williams (born November 26, 1926)[2] is an American retired actor, who played Ted Olsen on the TV series Police Squad! and in The Naked Gun films.
Williams was a broadcasting and speech teacher at Los Angeles City College in Southern California. He retired and then took acting classes. With the help of some contacts, he started acting as a second career.[citation needed]
Despite the success of The Naked Gun films, Williams only had minor roles in other movies, such as The Giant of Thunder Mountain (1991) and Carnosaur (1993).