Willie Garson
American actor (1964–2021)
Willie Garson
Garson in 2018
Born William Garson Paszamant
(1964-02-20 ) February 20, 1964Died September 21, 2021(2021-09-21) (aged 57) Education Occupation Character actor Years active 1986–2021 Children 1
William Garson Paszamant (February 20, 1964 – September 21, 2021) was an American character actor.[citation needed ] He appeared in over 75 films and more than 300 TV episodes. He was known for playing Stanford Blatch on the series Sex and the City , in the related films Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2 and in the spin-off And Just Like That... , Mozzie in the series White Collar from 2009 to 2014, Ralph in the 2005 romantic comedy Little Manhattan , Gerard Hirsch in the reboot of Hawaii Five-0 , and Martin Lloyd in the sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 .
Early life and education
Garson was born in Highland Park, New Jersey , the son of Muriel (née Schwartz) and Donald M. Paszamant.[1] Garson was Jewish.[2] He attended Camp Wekeela in Hartford, Maine , as a child for 11 years.[3]
He graduated in 1982 from Highland Park High School .[4] In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater from Wesleyan University [4] [5] and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale Drama School .[6] [7]
Career
Television
Garson had a recurring role as Henry Coffield on NYPD Blue and as Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City .[8] His other television appearances include Mr. Belvedere ,[9] My Two Dads , Coach ("The Loss Weekend" episode as a clerk), Quantum Leap (once as a newspaper salesman/hack writer, and once as Lee Harvey Oswald ), Twin Peaks , Monk , Boy Meets World , Girl Meets World (playing four different characters in the latter two shows' universe), Ally McBeal , Party of Five , Star Trek: Voyager (in the episode "Thirty Days"), Special Unit 2 , Just Shoot Me! , Ask Harriet , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Friends (as Ross Geller's neighbor in the episode "The One With the Girl Who Hits Joey"), The X-Files (twice and as two different characters), Cheers (as a waiter in the episode "Cape Cad"), Yes, Dear , CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Pushing Daisies , Stargate SG-1 (3 episodes), Wizards of Waverly Place , CSI: Miami , Mental , Spin City , and Taken . He co-starred in the 2007 HBO series John from Cincinnati . He co-starred as Mozzie in the USA Network series White Collar from 2009 to 2014.[10] From 2019 to 2020, he was a regular guest star on the syndicated game show 25 Words or Less .
Film
Garson also appeared in three movies from the Farrelly brothers – Kingpin , There's Something About Mary ,[9] and Fever Pitch . His other film credits include Groundhog Day , Just Like Heaven , The Rock ,[9] Fortress 2: Re-Entry , Being John Malkovich ,[9] Freaky Friday , Labor Pains , and Out Cold . He made a cameo in the end credits of Jackass Number Two ,[11] with the full context of the cameo being explained in Jackass 2.5 .[12] His last film role was in Before I Go (2021).
Personal life and death
Garson adopted a seven-year-old boy in 2009.[13] [14] Though he is mainly known for having played an openly gay man on Sex and the City , he was heterosexual.[15]
Garson died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California, on September 21, 2021, at age 57.[16] [17] [18]
Filmography
Film
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1986
The Deliberate Stranger
Miniseries
Family Ties
Walter
Episode: "Paper Chase"
Cheers
Waiter
Episode: "The Cape Cad"
You Again?
Clerk
Episode: "Quit Is a Four Letter Word"
The Disney Sunday Movie
Gladstone's Assistant
Episode: "The Leftovers (31.7)"
1986–87
Newhart
Mr. Whorley / Steve
2 episodes: "Desperately Desiring Susan: Part 2"; "Reading, Writing, and Rating Points"
1986–90
Mr. Belvedere
Carl
Recurring role
1987
My Two Dads
Tom
Episode: "Crime and Punishment"
1988–89
It's a Living
Phil Roman
3 episodes
1989
Coach
Clerk
Episode: "The Loss Weekend"
Peter Gunn
Rusty
TV movie
Chicken Soup
Waiter
Episode: "Double Date"
1989–92
Quantum Leap
Alik Idell / Lee Harvey Oswald / Seymour
3 episodes
1990
Thirtysomething
Ray
Episode: "Good Sex, Some Sex, What Sex, No Sex"
Booker
Mac Larson
Episode: "Mobile Home"
1991
Twin Peaks
Heavy Metal Roadie
Episode #2.20
American Playhouse
Father
Episode: "The Price of Life"
1993
Moon Over Miami
Episode: "Watching the Detectives"
L.A. Law
Jay Berg
Episode: "Odor in the Court"
Big Al
Ricki
TV short
Flying Blind
Leech Boy
Episode: "The Bride of Marsh Man 2: The Spawning"
A League of Their Own
Clark Powell
Episode: "Marathon"
1993–99
Boy Meets World
Leonard Spinelli / Mervyn / The Minister
4 episodes
1994
Renegade
Tommy
Episode: "Once Burned, Twice Chey"
Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice
Associate
TV movie
1995
Pig Sty
Hansen
2 episodes: "Mr. Nice Guy"; "Leap Into an Open Grave"
MADtv
Lee Harvey Oswald
Episode: "Kato Kaelin/Poison"
The Barefoot Executive
Assistant
TV movie
Partners
Larry
Episode: "Do We Have to Write You a Check?"
Mad About You
Randall
Episode: "New Year's Eve"
1995, 1999
The X-Files
Quinton 'Roach' Freely / Henry Weems
2 episodes: "The Walk "; "The Goldberg Variation "
1996
Touched by an Angel
Eddie Brenner
Episode: "Dear God"
1996–99
NYPD Blue
Henry Coffield
7 episodes
1997
VR.5
Strange Guy
Episode: "Sisters"
Caroline in the City
Annoying Guy
Episode: "Caroline and the Monkeys"
The Practice
D.A. Frank Shea
2 episodes: "Trial and Error"; "Dog Bite"
1997–98
Melrose Place
Dr. Mosley
2 episodes: "Secrets and Wives"; "Coop de Grace"
Ally McBeal
Alan Farmer / Frank Shea
2 episodes: "Compromising Positions"; "These Are the Days"
1998
Ask Harriet
Ronnie Rendall
Main cast
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Security Guard
Episode: "Killed by Death "
Conrad Bloom
Spencer
Episode: "Gone with the Re-Wind"
Party of Five
Mr. Kroop
3 episodes
Star Trek: Voyager
Riga
Episode: "Thirty Days "
1998–2004
Sex and the City
Stanford Blatch
Recurring role
1999
Friends
Steve Cera
Episode: "The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey"
Just Shoot Me!
Kurt
Episode: "Miss Pretty"
Early Edition
Willie Dretler
Episode: "The Out-of-Towner"
Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story
Sam
TV movie
Nash Bridges
Leonard Voss
Episode: "Crosstalk"
2000
City of Angels
Norman Lewis
Episode: "Cry Me a Liver"
Hollywood Off-Ramp
Episode: "And on Your Left..."
Level 9
Bones
2 episodes: "Mail Call"; "DefCon"
Spin City
Ned
Episode: "Blind Faith"
2000–06
Stargate SG-1
Martin Lloyd
3 episodes
2001
Going to California
Percy Utley
Episode: "A Pirate Looks at 15 to 20"
2001–02
Special Unit 2
Amphorian / Cupid / Little Brother / Ross Bowman
2 episodes: "The Brothers"; "The Love"
2002
Taken
Dr. Kreutz
2 episodes
2003
Greetings from Tucson
Mr. Gargan
Episode: "Counseling"
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Bud Simmons / Sexy Kitty
Episode: "Fur and Loathing"
Harry's Girl
TV movie
2004
All About the Andersons
Bud Barber
Episode: "Get Out of Dodge... Ball"
Yes, Dear
Gordon
Episode: "Kim and Gordon"
The Division
Deke
Episode: "The Box"
Monk
Leo Navarro
Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Panic Room"
Wild Card
Alan Farmer / Brad Pitt
Episode: "Die, Die, Who Am I?"
2005–06
CSI: Miami
Ian Sutter / Ian Sutton
2 episodes: "Sex & Taxes"; "If Looks Could Kill"
2006
Las Vegas
Pete Natelson
Episode: "Bait and Switch"
2007
John from Cincinnati
Meyer Dickstein
Main cast
2008
Chocolate News
Larry Turner
Episode: "Episode #1.1"
2009
Imagination Movers
Pants Armstrong
Episode: "Second Chance Pants"
Wizards of Waverly Place
Mr. Frenchy
Episode: "Fashion Week"
Pushing Daisies
Dick Dicker
Episode: "Window Dressed to Kill"
Medium
Alan Hitchens
Episode: "The Talented Ms. Boddicker"
Mental
Leonard Steinberg
Episode: "Rainy Days"
2009–14
White Collar
Mozzie
Main cast
2011
The Whole Truth
Episode: "The End"
2011–15
Whole Day Down
Willie
Main cast
2012
Hot in Cleveland
Dr. Brotz
Episode: "God and Football"
2013
Two and a Half Men
Dr. Steven Staven
Episode: "Run, Steven Staven! Run!"
Wendell & Vinnie
Jury member
Episode: "Mock Law & Order"
How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)
Harry
Episode: "How to Live with the Academy Awards Party"
2014
Girl Meets World
Harrison Miller
Episode: "Girl Meets Popular"
Franklin & Bash
Dr. Nick Beckman
Episode: "Kershaw v. Lincecum"
2015
Weird Loners
Carl
Episode: "Weird Knight"
2015–20
Hawaii Five-0
Gerard Hirsch
Guest role (seasons 5, 7–9), recurring role (season 6)
2016
The Mysteries of Laura
George Tilieu
Episode: "The Mystery of the Downward Spiral"
2017
Scandal
Protestor
Episode: "Day 101"
2018
Salvation
Dr. Carson
Episode: "Get Ready"
2019–20
Supergirl
Steve Lomeli
3 episodes
2019
Conversations in L.A.
Dr. Kerr
Episode: "Wed-Lock"
Magnum P.I.
Gerard Hirsch
Episode: "Blood Brothers"
2020
Big Mouth
Various voices
3 episodes
2021
And Just Like That...
Stanford Blatch
Posthumous release; 3 episodes
References
^ Home News Tribune: "MURIEL PASZAMANT FLANAGAN AGE: 77 NEW YORK, NY" .Garson leaves his sister, Lisa ( Paszamant ) Clark and brother, John Paszamant February 11, 2010
^ @WillieGarson (December 25, 2017). "As a Jewish person..." (Tweet ) – via Twitter .
^ Rymer, Chris (June 2012). " 'Summer Stock', Interview with Willie Garson" (PDF) . Portland Monthly (Summer Guide): 149–154.
^ a b "Willie Garson" . biography.com . Biography Channel . Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . Garson attended Highland Park High School, and after graduating in 1982 he continued on to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut...
^ "Does 'The Carrie Diaries' have room for Willie Garson '85?" . Wesconnect.Wesleyan.edu . Retrieved May 3, 2012 .
^ Shafer, Ellise (September 21, 2021). "Willie Garson, 'Sex and the City' and 'White Collar' Actor, Dies at 57" . Variety . Retrieved September 24, 2021 .
^ Di Nunzio, Miriam (September 21, 2021). "Willie Garson, starred as Stanford Blatch on 'Sex and the City,' dies at 57" . Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved September 24, 2021 .
^ Watkins, Gwynne (June 21, 2011). "Willie Garson of Sex and the City and White Collar Tells 12 Odd Stories From 12 TV Roles – Slideshow" . Vulture . Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
^ a b c d Lee, Luaine (June 22, 2000). "GARSON LOOKS FORWARD TO NEW SEASON, MORE JOBS" . chicagotribune.com . Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
^ "White Collar Cast Reunites for Family Dinner" . E! Online . December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
^ "Jackass Number Two – Full Cast & Crew" . TV Guide . Retrieved September 24, 2021 .
^ Andrew, Stephen (September 22, 2021). "Johnny Knoxville Remembers Willie Garson's 'Jackass' Appearance in Touching Tribute" . Pop Culture Media. Retrieved September 24, 2021 .
^ "SATC Actor Willie Garson Finalizes Son's Adoption" . February 5, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
^ "Exclusive: Meet Willie Garson's New Son Nathen!" . People. March 5, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2010 .
^ Cooper, Mariah (April 27, 2016). "Willie Garson says 'Sex and the City' diversified LGBT representation" . Washington Blade. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
^ Cordero, Rosy (September 21, 2021). "Willie Garson Dies: 'Sex And The City' Star Was 57" . Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved September 21, 2021 .
^ Boucher, Ashley (September 21, 2021). "Sex and the City Star Willie Garson Dead at 57" . People . Retrieved September 21, 2021 .
^ Jiminez, Jesus; Allen, Jordan (September 23, 2021). "Willie Garson, 'Sex and the City' Actor, Dies at 57" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on September 23, 2021. Retrieved September 23, 2021 .
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