He actually played a range of roles far beyond sitcoms, including leading man to Katharine Hepburn in Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (CBS, 1986) and a wonderfully manipulative Louis B. Mayer in Moviola (NBC, 1980), proving his versatility well into his eighties as he continued to be employed as a dependable presence in any film or television production Born Dec. 10, 1923 in Schenectady, NY, Gou