He donned obvious wigs, adopted strange accents and delighted in comic brinkmanship.
By Lisa Grace Lednicer Lisa Grace Lednicer Multiplatform editor Email Bio Follow May 14 at 12:52 PM Tim Conway, an award-winning comedic actor whose work on the Carol Burnett variety show provoked howls of laughter from television audiences and from co-stars — who could barely stay in character when he unleashed his arsenal of ridiculous accents and preposterous physical stunts — died May 14 at a care facility in Los Angeles. He was 85.
A featured guest and then a regular cast member on the CBS show from 1967 to 1978, Mr. Conway was an inveterate prankster who delighted in comic brinkmanship with Korman in particular. To that end, Mr. Conway hid his best comic ideas and script improvisations during rehearsals, unfurling them only during taping in front of a studio audience.
Donning a never-ending supply of obvious wigs, the balding, elfin Mr. Conway seamlessly adopted all manner of personas. As Mr. Tudball, a businessman with a strange hybrid Swedish-Romanian accent, he is perpetually exasperated by the ineptitude and indifference of his secretary, the rump-heavy Mrs. Wiggins .
Despite his small size, Mr. Conway was adept at gymnastics, football, basketball and baseball — an athleticism that he later put in the service of physical comedy.
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