Comic actor Fred Willard, known for his roles in Christopher Guest’s movies and as part of a same-sex couple in the original run of Roseanne, died Friday at age 86.Willard died of natural causes, his spokesman Glenn Schwartz told Rolling Stone.
His daughter, Hope Willard, tweeted that he died “very peacefully” and “kept moving, working and making us happy until the very end.”Fred Willard started acting in the 1960s and gained fame in the late 1970s playing Jerry Hubbard on the talk-show spoof