Jason Wingreen

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. 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. ==Career==

Film {{quote box 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 in the 1980 sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. English actor Jeremy Bulloch physically portrayed the character. For the DVD release of the film in 2004, Wingreen's lines were re-recorded by New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison. The 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones established that Boba Fett was a clone of Jango Fett, who was also played by Morrison. Stage Wingreen helped to found the Circle in the Square Theatre in Greenwich Village. Television {{quote box Wingreen was known for his role as bar owner/bartender Harry Snowden on the television sitcom All in the Family and its continuation series, ''Archie Bunker's Place''. In 1975: Ellery Queen series, one episode: "The adventure of the lover's leap", as Roy Miller. In 1979, Wingreen was a part of the ensemble cast of the TV mini-series Roots: The Next Generations. In 1991, he guest starred on General Hospital as Judge Mattson. After an appearance on TV's Seinfeld in the 1990s, Wingreen retired from acting. His last credited TV work was on In The Heat Of The Night in 1994. ==Personal life==

Wingreen married Gloria Scott Backe. Backe, known as "Scotty" died in 1996. He was survived by his son, theoretical physicist, Ned Wingreen, two grandchildren, and his sister, Harriet, a former pianist for the New York Philharmonic. ==Filmography==

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