Jason Wingreen
| Jason Wingreen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 9, 1920 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 2015 (aged 95) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1955–1994 |
| Known for | All in the Family, Archie Bunker's Place |
| Spouse(s) | Gloria Scott Backe (m. ?–1996; her death) |
Jason Wingreen (October 9, 1920 – December 25, 2015) was an American actor.
From the early 1960s Wingreen was a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Born in 1920 in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family, he grew up in Howard Beach, Queens, attended John Adams High School, and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1941. While at Brooklyn College, he participated in the Varsity Dramatic Society. Wingreen originally planned to become a newspaper reporter after writing about high school sports for the Brooklyn Eagle during his high school years.
During World War II, he served with the United States Army Air Force and was stationed in England and Germany. Following his return home, with the aid of the G.I. Bill, he studied acting at New York's New School. He was a co-founder of the Circle in the Square Theatre company in New York's Greenwich Village, and he appeared for the first time on Broadway in two 1954 plays: The Girl on the Via Flaminia and Fragile Fox.
“I’ve signed a lot of photos of Boba Fett. I was living a quiet, peaceful, unencumbered life until that news broke, and when the news came out in a Star Wars magazine, for which I’d done an interview, the letters just never stopped.”
In 1958, Wingreen had the role of Nichols in the 20th Century Fox production The Bravados.
Wingreen lent his voice to the bounty hunter Boba Fett (portrayed by Jeremy Bulloch) in the 1980 sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. For the DVD release of the film in 2004, Wingreen's voice was replaced by New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison in continuity with the 2002 prequel Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones in which the character is revealed to be a clone of Morrison's Jango Fett who acts as Boba's father.”
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