Frederick Charles Willard (born September 18, 1933 - May 15, 2020) was an American actor, comedian and voice over actor known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration as well as television series D.C. Follies. He is an alumnus of The Second City comedy troupe. He received three Emmy nominations for his recurring role on the TV series Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert Barone's father-in-law, Hank MacDougall.

Filmography

• 2021Captain Daddy — Daddy (voice)
• 2020Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics — The 'Just Hang On!' Man
• 2020Lilly's Light: The Movie — Moylin
• Space Force — Fred Naird, Thanks
• The Second City Presents: The Last Show Left on Earth
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson — New Joe
• What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage
• 2018Lovesick Fool - Love in the Age of Like — Smitty
• 9JKL — Dick
• 2017Oh Damn
• 2016Fifty Shades of Black — Gary
• 2016Here Comes Rusty — Mak
• Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
• 2016Mascots — Greg Gammons, Jr.
• 2016Max Rose — Jim Clark
• 2015Bachelors — Uncle Ulysses
• Kevin from Work — Roger Trousdale
• 2015Russell Madness — TJ
• 2015Show Boat — Cap'n Andy Hawks
• The Odd Couple — Fred Langford
• 2014All-Stars — John Carson
• 2014Planes: Fire & Rescue — Secretary of the Interior (voice)
• Review — Jack T. Walthall
• 2014The Yank — Peter Murphy
• Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories — Dan
• TripTank — 911 Call (voice)
• 2014Wish Wizard — Hope Giver
• 2013Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues — Ed Harken
• 2013Dealin' with Idiots
• Drunk History — Deep Throat
• Family Tree — Mike Morton
• 2013The Birder — Park President
• The Birthday Boys — Various
• Comedy Bang! Bang! — Merlin
• 2012I, Martin Short, Goes Home — Mason Macgillivray
• 2012The Magic of Belle Isle — Al Kaiser
• Trust Us with Your Life — Host
• 201112 Wishes of Christmas — Jack Volara
• 2011Accidentally in Love — Dick Brocton
• Franklin & Bash — Wallace Clayton
• 2011Fred & Vinnie — Movie Star
• 2011My Future Boyfriend — Bob
• New Girl — Beezus
• 2011Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur — Mr. Hubley (voice)
• 2011Your Love Never Fails — Paul
• 2010Expecting Mary — Jerry Zee
• G.I. Joe: Renegades — Mayor Lockridge (voice)
• Glory Daze — Doctor
• 2010Hermie & Friends: Antonio Meets His Match — Angus
• 2010Holyman Undercover — Richard
• Hot in Cleveland — Doctor Hill
• 2010Lilly's Light — Moylin
• Raising Hope — Mr. Swift
• Castle — Hank McPhee
• Community — Alter-Pierce
• In Gayle We Trust — Pete
• Modern Family — Frank Dunphy
• 2009School Gyrls — Mr Lockwood
• 2009Scouts Honor — Game Master
• Tosh.0
• 2009Youth in Revolt — Mr. Ferguson
• Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures — Bus Driver Bob (voice)
• Free Radio — Dale Knutson
• 2008Harold — Dr. Pratt
• 2008WALL·E — Shelby Forthright, BnL CEO
• Back to You — Marsh McGinley
• 2007Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure — The Boogey Man (voice)
• 2007Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen — Boogey (voice)
• Chuck — Craig Turner
• 2007Epic Movie — Aslo
• 2007I Could Never Be Your Woman — Marty
• 2007I'll Believe You — Mr. Fratus
• Pushing Daisies — The Great Herrmann
• The Wedding Bells
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! — Tragg, Mancierge
• Transformers: Animated — Swindle (voice)
• Wizards of Waverly Place — Mr. Stuffleby
• 2006Church Ball — Bishop Linderman
• 2006Date Movie — Bernie Funkyerdoder
• 2006Fighting Words — Longfellow
• 2006For Your Consideration — Chuck
• 2006Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen — Santa Claus / Dog Catcher (voice)
• 2006Ira & Abby — Michael Willoughby
• 2006Monster House — Dad (voice)
• 2006Re-Animated — Milt Appleday
• 2005Chicken Little — Melvin - Alien Dad (voice)
• 2005Love Wrecked — Ben Taylor
• The Boondocks — Mr. Joe Petto (voice)
• The Closer — Santa Jack
• 200450 Ways to Leave Your Lover — Bucky Brandt
• 2004Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy — Ed Harken
• Best Week Ever
• 2004Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter — Analyst
• 2004Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — Dr. Willoughby
• 2004Killer Diller — Ned
• Living in TV Land
• 2004Nobody Knows Anything! — Mr. McClintock
• The Batman — Ross (voice), Announcer / Instructor (voice)
• 2004The Nutcracker and the Mouseking — Bubble (voice)
• Tom Goes to the Mayor — Garry Friendly (voice)
• 2004Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie — Ed Harken
• 2003A Mighty Wind — Mike LaFontaine
• A Minute with Stan Hooper — Fred Hawkins
• 2003American Wedding — Harold Flaherty
• 2003Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure — Professor Doornitz
• Cold Pizza
• 3-South
• Kim Possible — Jack Hench (voice), Jack Hench / Receptionist (voice)
• Teamo Supremo — (voice)
• 2002The Year That Trembled — Frank Woods
• Watching Ellie — Fred
• Dinner for Five
• 2001Elvis Is Alive! I Swear I Saw Him Eating Ding Dongs Outside the Piggly Wiggly's
• 2001How High — Philip Huntley
• Inside Schwartz — Dick Newton
• Maybe It's Me — Jerry Stage
• 2001Teddy Bears' Picnic — Senator Roger Dickey
• The Downer Channel
• The Fighting Fitzgeralds
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy — Boogey
• The Legend of Tarzan — Baruti (voice)
• 2001The Wedding Planner — Basil St. Mosely
• Undeclared — Professor Duggan
• 2001When Billie Beat Bobby — Howard Cosell
• 2000Best in Show — Buck Laughlin
• Bette
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command — Pa (voice)
• 2000Chump Change — Steve's Manager
• 2000Dropping Out — Paul Blanchard
• Girlfriends — Dr. Percy Bales
• 2000The Pooch and the Pauper — President
• 1999Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me — Mission Commander
• 1999Can't Stop Dancing — Chester
• Family Guy — Dave Campbell (voice)
• 1999Idle Hands — Dad
• Ladies Man — Larry Little
• Hercules — Vic (voice)
• Oh Baby
• 1998Permanent Midnight — Craig Ziffer
• That '70s Show — Charlie
• The Hughleys — Richard Jacobson, Applegate
• Two Guys and a Girl — Frank Farber
• Ally McBeal — Dr. Harold Madison
• 1997Breast Men — Talk Show Host (uncredited)
• City Guys
• Just Shoot Me! — Larry
• King of the Hill — Officer Brown (voice), Ranger Bradley / Reclining Hippie (voice), Chairman / Geiger (voice)
• Stargate SG-1 — Jacek
• The Weird Al Show — Award Show Host
• 1997Waiting for Guffman — Ron Albertson
• 1997steve.oedekerk.com
• 1996Back to Back — Loan Officer
• Clueless — Joe Pasadine
• Dexter's Laboratory — F.R.E.D. (voice)
• Everybody Loves Raymond — Hank MacDougall
• Hey Arnold!
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Bobby Calzone
• 1995Prehysteria! 3
• The Drew Carey Show — Fred tuttle
• The Wayans Bros. — Dick Ferndale
• Friends — Mr. Lipson
• 1994Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die — Reginald Cobbles
• Sister, Sister — Mr. Mitushka
• 1994Sodbusters — Clarence Gentry
• Dave's World — Bud
• Diagnosis: Murder — Harry Fellows
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman — President Garner
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class — Mr. Huffington
• 1992A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out — Lt. Bob Hookstratten
• 1992High Strung — Insurance Salesman
• Mad About You — Henry Vincent
• The Ben Stiller Show
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Harry and the Hendersons — Chick Fox
• Step by Step — Bert Lambert
• Dream On — Fenton Harley
• Family Matters — Vice Principal Mallet
• 1989I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood — Man #2 at Party
• The Simpsons — Wally Kogen (voice)
• Murphy Brown
• My Secret Identity
• 1988Portrait of a White Marriage — Hal Harrison
• Roseanne
• 1988Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel — Finn Howard, Metropolis Deputy Mayor
• D.C. Follies
• Married... with Children — Stan
• 1987Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall — Tom Osborne
• 1987Roxanne — Mayor Deebs
• Fast Times — Gus Pantelis
• 1986The History of White People in America: Volume II — Hal Harrison
• George Burns Comedy Week
• 1985Lots of Luck — A.J. Foley
• 1985Moving Violations — Terrence "Doc" Williams
• The Golden Girls — Bob
• 1985The History of White People in America — Hal Harrison
• Murder, She Wrote — Lt. Phillips
• 1984This Is Spinal Tap — Lt. Hookstratten
• 1983Imps* — Dad
• Mama's Family
• American Playhouse — Tom Osborne (segment 'Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall')
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Paul
• 1982National Lampoon's Movie Madness — President Robert Fogerty - 'Success Wanters'
• 1981The Perfect Woman — King Kroger
• 1980First Family — Presidential Assistant Feebleman
• 1980How to Beat the High Cost of Living — Robert
• $weepstake$ — Don
• 1979Americathon — Vincent Vanderhoff
• 1979Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers — Jack LaRosa
• Real People — Co-Host
• Salem's Lot — Larry Crockett
• America 2-Night — Jerry Hubbard
• 1978Space Force — Captain Thomas Woods
• 1977Cracking Up
• 1977Escape from Bogen County — Pearson
• Fernwood 2 Night — Jerry Hubbard
• 1977Fun with Dick and Jane — Bob
• Tabitha
• The Love Boat — Richard Henderson, Lou
• We've Got Each Other
• 1976Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy — Peter Linden
• Good Heavens
• 1976How to Break Up a Happy Divorce — Lance Colson
• Laverne & Shirley
• 1976Silver Streak — Jerry Jarvis
• Sirota's Court — H.R. 'Bud' Nugent
• 1975Hustle — Interrogator
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Bear City Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1974Harrad Summer — Gary Logan
• The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour
• 1973The Harrad Experiment — The Ace Trucking Company
• The Bob Newhart Show — John Emil Tobin
• 1970Jenny — Executive
• Love, American Style — Douglas
• 1969Model Shop — Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
• 1967Teenage Mother — Coach
• Pistols 'n' Petticoats
• Get Smart — Lundy
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Professor Koffka, Self
• Totally Obsessed

Appearances as themselves (46)

• 2026Who Is Martin Mull? — Self
• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Live at Mister Kelly's — Self
• 2020Kaufmania! — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp — Self
• Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time — Self
• The Very Very Best of the 70s — Self - Commentator
• 2017Every 40 Years — Himself
• The $100,000 Pyramid — Self
• Celebrity Family Feud — Self
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self - Guest
• Hollywood Game Night — Self
• Norm Macdonald Live — Self
• Inside Comedy — Self
• Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
• 2009Official Rejection — Self
• 2007Fired! — Self
• Head Case — Self
• Thank God You're Here — Self
• 2006Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner — Self - Roaster
• Hell's Kitchen — Self - Restaurant Patron
• 2005The Aristocrats — Self
• 2004American Pie: Revealed — Self
• 2004Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown — Self
• The Soup — Self
• Comedy Central Roasts — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest Co-Host
• The Bachelorette — Self - Commentator
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Pet Star — Self - Judge
• The Bachelor — Self - Commentator
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• Muppets Tonight — Self
• MADtv — Self - Special Guest / Gene St. John
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• 1992Martin Mull: Talent Takes a Holiday — Self
• 1991The 1984 Los Angeles Comedy Competition With Host Jay Leno — Self / Celebrity Judge
• 1991Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth — Self
• 1987Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio — Self
• Madame's Place — Self
• 1982Twilight Theater II — Self- Guest
• 1977The People's Command Performance: '77 — Self - Ace Trucking Company
• 1971Dynamite Chicken — Self - Ace Trucking Co.