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Bill Erwin was born in Honey Grove, Texas. He attended San Angelo College before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 1935, earning a Bachelors degree in Journalism. He completed a Masters of Theater Arts degree in California at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1941. After serving as a Captain in the Army Air Force in World War II, Erwin returned to Hollywood to resume his acting career. His first film role was in 1942 in "You're in the Army Now", with Phil Silvers.
Erwin was also a self-taught cartoonist, published published in the New Yorker, Playboy and Los Angeles magazine.
He lived in North Hollywood with his wife (deceased), actress and journalist Fran McLachlan Erwin. Together they had two daughters, two sons and eight grandchildren. Erwin died on December 29, 2010 in Studio City, Los Angeles, near the production lot where "Seinfeld" had been filmed.
In the late 1950s, Erwin was in such pictures as Man From Del Rio, The Night Runner, and The Cry Baby Killer. He played Jack Nicholson's father in "Cry Baby Killer," Nicholson's first starring role in 1958. The long out-of-print film was released on DVD on November 22, 2006. He would later co-star alongside Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in the 1980 romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time, and attend annual reunions of cast, crew and fans of the movie at Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Erwin has appeared in a number of films directed by John Hughes, with cameos in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She's Having a Baby, Home Alone, and Dennis the Menace. Often, Hughes often paired him with Billie Bird as his wife.
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