Jason Wingreen, who played Harry the bartender on All in the Family and Archie Bunker’s Place and provided the voice of the bounty hunter, Boba Fett in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, has died. He was 95, The Hollywood Reporter tells the story.

A veteran character actor of film and television, who had almost 200 credits listed on IMDB, died at his home in Los Angeles on Christmas Day, his son Ned confirms.

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The prolific actor started his career with a bang appearing in such 1950s Western series as The Rough Riders and Man Without a Gun. Then onwards, Wingreen became increasingly more involved in 20th century set law and crime shows, including Mannix, Ironside, Burke's Law, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files.

Hollywood.com also reveals that the actor made a lot of acting series and then landed on big movies with big roles such as a doctor from the Mayo Clinic in the 1980 comedy Airplane. He also starred in classic films such as The Bravados, A Guide for the Married Man, Marlowe, They Only Kill Their Masters, The Terminal Man and Oh, God! You Devil.

Reports dished out that Wingreen auditioned for the part of Yoda. He didn’t get that role but he was given four lines of dialogue spoken by the masked Boba Fett, the feared bounty hunter who captures Han Solo (Harrison Ford).

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“I think the actual work, aside from the hellos and goodbyes and all that, could have been no more than 10 minutes,” he said. He received no credit for his work (it didn’t become publicly known that the voice was his until about 2000) and lamented that he received no residuals for the performance — especially since it’s Wingreen heard on some Boba Fett action figures.

According to Us Weekly, before beginning an acting career, Wingreen served in World War II, later working with a marionette company. He also was one of the founders of the NYC-based Circle in the Square theater company, and began his acting career on Broadway, starring in two 1954 shows — The Girl on the Via Flaminia and Fragile Fox.

Following the actor's death, several touching tweets were posted on Twitter:

Wingreen is survived by his son, two grandchildren and his sister.

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