William Hickey

William Hickey (1927-1997) was a character actor who spent years acting on the New York stage but became best known in later years, playing cantankerous old men in film and television. Hickey guest starred in Episode 1205 of Sesame Street as the doctor who treats Mr. Hooper for an arm injury.
Hickey began his stage career in the 1950s in plays such as Miss Lonelyhearts (with Anne Meara) and The Body Beautiful (with Jack Warden). TV work included appearances on Studio One, The Defenders, and The Phil Silvers Show. He made his film debut in 1957's A Hatful of Rain and subsequently played the bar drunk who sits with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in The Producers, a suspect in The Boston Strangler (with Henry Fonda), and the historian interviewing Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man.
While he reprised his stage role in the 1971 film Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Hickey was still primarily a stage actor (in 1974's Thieves, directed by Charles Grodin) and teacher (with the Herbert Berghof Studio) until the 1980s, when his movie profile increased. He received an Oscar-nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1985's Prizzi's Honor (as the aging mafia don). He played obnoxious Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and had prominent parts or sizable cameos in In the Name of the Rose (with Michael Habeck), One Crazy Summer (with Demi Moore), Da (with Martin Sheen), and Pink Cadillac (with Clint Eastwood). Later films include Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, Major Payne, The Nightmare Before Christmas (voice of Dr. Finkelstein), and Mouse Hunt (as the dying father of Nathan Lane). 
Later TV credits included three appearances on Wings as annoying Carlton Blanchard and guest spots on The Equalizer, Miami Vice, Spenser: For Hire, Tales from the Crypt, Moonlighting, and The Outer Limits.
==External links==
*IMDb 
*Internet Broadway Database
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