Willis Macon McCalman (December 30, 1932 – November 29, 2005), aka Macon McCalman, was an American television, stage and big screen movie actor.

Biographie

Acting career
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.


Hollywood film and TV roles
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).


Death
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.


Selected filmography
Films
Rosewood (1997) .... Gov. Hardee
A Walk in the Clouds (1995) .... Conductor
The Client (1994) .... Ballatine
Falling Down (1993) .... Detective Graham
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) .... Prosecutor Percy
Doc Hollywood (1991) .... Aubrey Draper
The Young Riders (1989) (TV)
Marie (1985) (TV) .... Murray Henderson
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985' .... Larry Rogers
Cold Feet (1989) .... Store Owner
Honkytonk Man (1982) .... Dr. Hines
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) .... Dr. Sam
Dead & Buried (1981) .... Ben
The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979) .... Carl Parker
Comes a Horseman (1978) .... Virgil Hoverton
The Pirate (1978) .... Hutchinson
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) .... Mr. B
Lipstick (1976) .... Police Photographer
Deliverance (1972) .... Deputy Queen
Television work
The Wonder Years (1993)
Scattered Dreams (1993)
Goode Behavior (1996)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994)
Designing Women (1989)
L.A. Law (1989–1991)
Murder, She Wrote (1987–1991)
My Two Dads (1990)
Mancuso, FBI (1990)
Guns of Paradise (1989)
Perfect Strangers (1989)
Dallas (1987)
Silver Spoons (1987)
Family Ties (1986)
Knight Rider (1985)
Hill Street Blues (1984)
The Red-Light Sting (1984)
Newhart (1984)
St. Elsewhere (1984)
Three's Company (1979–1983)
Diff'rent Strokes (1981-1983)
Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983)
Gloria (1983)
Remington Steele (1983)
Cheers (1982)
Lou Grant (1981-1982)
Carbon Copy (1981)
The Waltons (1979-1980)
Hart to Hart (1979)
Carter Country (1977)
The Bob Newhart Show (1977)
Maude (1977)
Roots (1977; TV miniseries)
The Jeffersons (1976) (TV)
Captains and the Kings (1976; TV miniseries)
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1976)
Kojak (1976)
Emergency! (1975)