Paxton Whitehead, the prolific and acclaimed actor whose career stretched from 17 Broadway productions, a recurring role on the hit 1990s sitcom Mad About You and a memorable turn as a snooty profe…
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Whitehead began a ten-year run in 1967 as artistic director of Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada. He also performed in a West End production ofA familiar face on television for decades, Whitehead made appearances in Magnum, P.I., Hart to Hart, The A-Team, Silver Spoons, Caroline in the City, Ellen, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Frasier,, in which he had the recurring role of the comically snobbish neighbor Hal Conway. He also recurred in 1995’sstarring Whoopi Goldberg and, perhaps most memorably, the 1986 Dangerfield vehicle Back to School. In the latter, Dangerfield, then at the peak of his movie popularity, played the crass but wealthy self-made businessman who, well into middle-age, decides to go to college.
In a central scene, Dangerfield’s character repeatedly interrupts Dr. Barbay’s business lecture to offer hard-knocks advice about bribes and kickbacks.
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