Born: January 10, 1948

Gangly American character actor William Sanderson has done all right by himself in "Bubba" roles. He was seen in such bucolic characterizations as Lee Dollarhide in Coal_Miner's_Daughter (1980), Sleets in Rocketeer (1989), Zeke in Wagons_East (1994), and Lippy in the first two Lonesome_Dove TV miniseries. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s as one-third of the backwoods trio Larry, Daryl and Daryl on the TV sitcom Newhart (1982-90); Sanderson was Larry, the interpreter for his two tight-lipped, dull-witted siblings. Despite the illusion created by his specialty, Sanderson is no hayseed. Following his military discharge, Sanderson graduated from Memphis State University and after that became a law student until the acting bug bit and led him to drop out of school to launch a successful theater career in New York; Sanderson moved into television and feature films. As a change of pace, William Sanderson was heard as urbane, authoritative robotmaster Karl Rossum in the daily Fox TV Network attraction Batman:_The_Animated_Series (1992). In 1998, William Sanderson co-starred opposite Beau_Bridges in the satirical television series Maximum_Bob. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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