Charles C. Stevenson, Jr., 1930 – 2026
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Character actor Charles C. Stevenson, Jr., (“Smitty” on Will & Grace) 95, died on Jan. 19. Stevenson served in the Korean war and studied at UC Berkeley before going into “civilian” jobs. He didn’t start acting professionally until the 1980s. He appeared in more than 100 TV shows and movies: his son Scott wrote that “In his own words, his job was ‘marrying or burying people. As he told it, the panic-stricken director would invariably come to him to beg him to find a way to fill in unscripted space between ‘We are gathered here together’ (where he’d probably get his close-up) and the ‘amen’ at the end of the scene (where he usually wouldn’t). Stevenson admitted that he got pretty good at that.” Though he did one-offs on such shows as Dynasty, Cheers, Designing Women, NewsRadio, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Melrose Place, The West Wing, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Stevenson’s most memorable role was on 12 episodes of Will & Grace, as the hard-luck bartender to whom Karen pours out her troubles.
“Ah, Smitty!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rseEtQYUQTs
