Henry Polic II
Henry Albert Polic II (February 20, 1945 – August 11, 2013) was an American stage, screen, and voice actor, best known as Jerry Silver on "Webster". He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Florida State University and later served in the military police at Fort Riley in Kansas. While at Florida State University he starred in many stage productions including Our Town. He also was an active member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 1975, Polic was a regular cast member on Mel Brooks' short-lived television comedy, "When Things Were Rotten". Polic also had a  regular role as Dracula in "Monster Squad" (1976). In the 1980s, Polic was often seen as a celebrity guest player on various game shows. His most frequent guest spots were on the various incarnations of "Pyramid", as he appeared multiple times on "The $25,000 Pyramid" and the editions of "The $100,000 Pyramid" hosted by Dick Clark and John Davidson for producer Bob Stewart. Polic did various other work for Stewart, hosting the game show "Double Talk" in 1986, a pilot for a revival of Stewart's "Eye Guess" called "Eye Q" in 1988, and sharing announcing duties with  Johnny Gilbert and Dean Goss on the latter edition of "The $100,000 Pyramid". His specialties included foreign and regional accents, ballroom dancing and baritone singing. From the early 1990s until his death, Polic was perhaps best known as the original British-accented voice of the Scarecrow in "". Originally he had a deep, gruff voice, but later made his voice a bit higher for the role. Polic also worked at Florida State University as a guest star in the School of Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol," playing Scrooge in 1996. Polic died on August 11, 2013, of cancer . A US Army Vietnam veteran, he is interred at National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix.