Editing Bill Macy (section)

== Television ==
Appreciating Macy's comedic skills off Broadway, [[Norman Lear]] brought him to Hollywood, where he first got a small part as a police officer in ''[[All in the Family]].'' He was cast in the role of Walter Findlay, the husband of the title character on the 1970s television sitcom ''[[Maude (TV series)|Maude]]'', starring [[Bea Arthur]]. The show ran for six seasons from 1972 to 1978.<ref name=":0" />

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Strangers on the street often called him "Mr. Maude", consoling him for having such a difficult wife. "I used to tell them that people like that really existed," Macy explained.<ref name=":3">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/10/18/bill-macy-maude-husband-dead-97/4022258002/ |title=Bill Macy, who played Bea Arthur's husband in 'Maude,' dead at 97 |last=Moniuszko |first=Sara M. |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |language=en |access-date=October 19, 2019}}</ref>

In 1975, Macy and Samantha Harper Macy appeared on the game show ''[[Tattletales]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tattletales Episode #2.119 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5898338/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 August 2021}}</ref>

In 1986, Macy was a guest on the fourth episode of ''[[L.A. Law]]'', playing an older man whose young wife wants a music career.   Also that year he guest starred in an episode of Highway to Heaven, called Cindy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49GqTavWOEQ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207140522/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49GqTavWOEQ| archive-date=2019-12-07 | url-status=dead|title=LA Law Season 01 Episode 04: The House of the Rising Flan |via=YouTube |access-date=October 18, 2019}}</ref> Macy appeared in the television movie ''[[Perry Mason (TV film series)|Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam]]'' (1987) as banker Richard Wilson. He appeared on ''[[The Facts of Life (TV series)|The Facts of Life]]'' in a 1988 episode. He occasionally appeared on ''[[Seinfeld]]'' as one of the residents of the Florida retirement community where [[Jerry Seinfeld (character)|Jerry Seinfeld]]'s parents lived. Macy made a guest appearance as a patient on ''[[Chicago Hope]]'' and as an aging gambler on the series ''[[Las Vegas (TV series)|Las Vegas]]''. Macy's last television role occurred in a 2010 episode of [[Jada Pinkett Smith]]'s series ''[[Hawthorne (TV series)|Hawthorne]]''.<ref name=":1" />