| Television |
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1950 | The Silver Theatre | | Episode 27: "Coal of Fire" |
| 1950–1951 | Fireside Theatre | Doctor | 3 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 1 episode |
| 1951 | The Bigelow Theatre | | Episode 9: "Coal of Fire" |
| The Stu Erwin Show | | Season 1 Episode 20: "High Finance" |
| Stars Over Hollywood | | Episode: "The Ageless" |
| Hollywood Opening Night | | Season 1 Episode 4: "The Ageless" |
| 1952 | Lux Video Theatre | Reporter | Season 3 Episode 10: "The Face of Autumn" |
| 1954 | Mama | | Season 5 Episode 23: "Mama & the Wild Man" |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | Herman | Credited as William Erwin
Season 6 episode 12: "The Dancers" |
| 1955 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Jens Nelson | Season 6 Episode 30: "P.J. Martin and Son" |
| Studio 57 | | Season 2 Episode 13: "The Girl in the Bathing Suit" |
| Highway Patrol | Artie | Season 1 Episode 12: "Phony Insurance" |
| 1955–1956 | Screen Directors Playhouse | Carl / Third Conductor / 1st Gambler | 3 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 2 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Fireman (uncredited) | Season 1 Episode 14: "A Bullet for Baldwin" |
| Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | | Season 5 Episode 17: "The Big Payday" |
| Science Fiction Theatre | Dr. Harold Lewis / Mike | 2 episodes |
| Big Town | | 2 episodes |
| The Sheriff of Cochise | Doctor | Season 2 Episode 16: "Tough Guy" |
| Crusader | Brenner | Season 2 Episode 4: "The Girl Across the Hall" |
| The Man Called X | | Episode 2: "Code 'W'" |
| 1956–1957 | Telephone Time | Newspaper Man | Credited as William Erwin
2 episodes |
| 1956–1959 | Cheyenne | Barber / Pvt. Poinsett | 2 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| 1957 | I Love Lucy | Bum | Uncredited
Season 6 Episode 12: "Lucy and the Loving Cup" |
| Wire Service | | Credited as William Erwin
Episode 22: "Forbidden Ground" |
| Whirlybirds | Fred Midgley | Credited as William Erwin
Season 1 Episode 36: "Take a Little, Leave a Little" |
| State Trooper | Neal James | Season 2 Episode 3: "Madman on the Mountain" |
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective | Sergeant Riker / Detective Ryker / Sgt. Riker | 4 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| Code 3 | Doctor | Credited as William Erwin
Episode 32: "Bail Out" |
| 1957–1958 | Panic! | Chauffeur / Joseph McGilbert / Interne | 3 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 2 episodes |
| 1957–1959 | Bachelor Father | Court Clerk / Mr. Logan / Security Guard | 3 episodes
Credited as Will Erwin - 1 episode |
| 1957–1961 | Zane Grey Theatre | Various characters | 7 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 4 episodes |
| 1957–1974 | Gunsmoke | Various characters | 14 episodes
Credits as William Erwin or William L. Erwin
Uncredited - 3 episodes |
| 1958 | Colt .45 | Clerk | Season 1 Episode 15: "Dead Reckoning" |
| How to Marry a Millionaire | Max Bigelow | Uncredited
Season 1 Episode 19: "Loco Leaves Home" |
| The Californians | Attorney | Uncredited
Season 1 Episode 31: "Second Trial" |
| The Walter Winchell File | Bellem | Episode 8: "Thing of Beauty: File #29" |
| Sea Hunt | Dr. Hugh Benedict | Season 1 Episode 31: "The Big Dive" |
| Colgate Theatre | Wilber | Episode: "Macreedy's Woman" |
| Trackdown | Man on Trail / Dawson | 2 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| Man with a Camera | Sam Bartlett | Season 1 Episode 2: "The Warning" |
| Sugarfoot | Jones | Credited as William Erwin
Season 2 episode 4: "The Ghost" |
| Flight | Palmer Owens | Credited as William Erwin
Episode 17: "Final Approach" |
| The Danny Thomas Show | Man in Dream / Emcee | 2 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 1 episode |
| Lawman | Fred Petty | Season 1 Episode 12: "Lady in Question" |
| 1958–1959 | M Squad | Detective Gene / Roger Jessop | 2 episodes |
| 1958–1960 | The Texan | Sheriff Nick Rand / Les Cosby / Stableman | 3 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 1 episode |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | Townsman / Clerk / Citizen | 3 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 2 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| 1958–1964 | Death Valley Days | Various characters | 5 episodes |
| 1959 | The Rifleman | Joe Flecker | Season 1 Episode 15: "The Pet" |
| Wagon Train | Clegg | Season 2 Episode 16: "The Hunter Malloy Story" |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | Justin Peevy | Season 3 Episode 21: "The Town That Wouldn't Talk" |
| General Electric Theater | | Season 7 Episode 24: "Train for Tecumseh" |
| Leave It to Beaver | Man | Season 2 Episode 26: "Price of Fame" |
| The David Niven Show | Cashier | Uncredited
Episode 1: "Fortune's Folly" |
| Black Saddle | Kelly | Credited as William Erwin
Season 1 Episode 18: "Client: Brand" |
| Tombstone Territory | Storekeeper | Season 2 Episode 11: "Grave Near Tombstone" |
| Markham | Arthur Brookman | Season 1 Episode 14: "We Are All Suspect" |
| Johnny Ringo | Manners | Episode 1: "The Arrival" |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | | Season 2 Episode 3: "Six Guns for Donegan" |
| Law of the Plainsman | Dr. Palmer | Episode 9: "The Gibbet" |
| 1959–1963 | The Twilight Zone | Various characters | Episode 3: "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" (1959)
Episode 5: "Walking Distance" (1959) - Uncredited
Episode 64: "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" (1961)
Episode 107: "Mute" (1963) - Uncredited |
| The Untouchables | Various characters | 5 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 3 episodes
Uncredited - 2 episodes |
| 1959–1966 | Perry Mason | Various characters | 5 episodes
Credited as William Erwin - 1 episode |
| 1960 | The Detectives | Manager | Season 1 Episode 16: "House Call" |
| Bourbon Street Beat | Doctor | Episode 19: "The 10% Blues" |
| Rescue 8 | Justin | Season 2 Episode 29: "School for Violence" |
| Stagecoach West | Teller | Episode 1: "High Lonesome" |
| Coronado 9 | Joe | Episode 8: "I Want to Be Hated" |
| 1960–1961 | The Andy Griffith Show | An Investor / George Sapley | 2 episodes
Credited as William Erwin |
| Michael Shayne | Luke / Landlord | 2 episodes |
| 1960–1962 | Lassie | Mr. Burton / Bob Thomas | 2 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| 1961 | Rawhide | Parker | Credited as William Erwin
S3:E17, "Incident of the New Start" |
| Mister Ed | Mr. Wood | Credited as William Erwin
Season 1 Episode 9: "The Missing Statue" |
| Outlaws | Townsman | Uncredited
Season 1 Episode 18: "No More Pencils - No More Books" |
| Peter Loves Mary | Bill Stanhope / 1st Non-Com | 2 episodes
Credited as William Erwin |
| Angel | Coach | Credited as Bill Irwin
Episode 28: "The Little Leaguer" |
| The Defenders | Court Clerk | Season 1 Episode 3: "Death Across the Counter" |
| Follow the Sun | Frank March | Episode 10: "Little Girl Lost" |
| 1961–1965 | My Three Sons | Joe Walters / Steward | 4 episodes |
| 1962 | 87th Precinct | George | Episode 30: "Girl in the Case" |
| Ben Casey | | Season 1 Episode 32: "When You See an Evil Man" |
| Saints and Sinners | Nolan | Credited as William Erwin
Episode 8: "Daddy's Girl" |
| Stoney Burke | | Episode 10: "The Wanderer" |
| 1962–1964 | The Virginian | Bevers / Deputy | 2 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| 1963 | The Dakotas | Doctor | Episode 18: "Sanctuary at Crystal Springs" |
| Burke's Law | Fire Marshal | Season 1 Episode 11: "Who Killed Purity Mather?" |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Food Truck Cook | Episode 13: "Lady in Limbo" |
| 1963–1967 | The Fugitive | Various characters | 4 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| 1964 | Arrest and Trial | Doctor | Episode 27: "The Revenge of the Worm" |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | Father Daley | Season 1 Episode 23: "Their Own Executioners" |
| 1965 | Profiles in Courage | Ingalls | Episode 21: Grover Cleveland |
| The Big Valley | Crown Man on Train | Uncredited
Season 1 Episode 1: "Palms of Glory" |
| 1966 | Shane | Clerk | Episode 15: "The Great Invasion: Part 1" |
| 1966–1971 | The F.B.I. | Manager / Paxton | 3 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| 1967 | Laredo | 1st Townsman | Uncredited
Season 2 Episode 15: "The Seventh Day" |
| The Invaders | Manager | Season 1 Episode 5: "Genesis" |
| The Guns of Will Sonnett | Hotel Clerk | Season 1 Episode 5: "Of Lasting Summers and Jim Sonnett" |
| The Second Hundred Years | 2nd Salesman | Episode 11: "No Experience Necessary" |
| Get Smart | Mr. Smith | Season 3 Episode 13: "The Mysterious Dr. T" |
| 1969 | Mannix | Prop Man | Credited as William Erwin
Season 3 Episode 4: "The Playground" |
| My World and Welcome to It | American Conductor | Episode 7: "Nobody Ever Kills Dragons Anymore" |
| 1970 | Mayberry R.F.D. | Man at Convention | Season 2 Episode 26: "The Mynah Bird" |
| How Awful About Allan | Dr. Ames | Television movie
Credited as William Erwin |
| 1970–1971 | Dan August | Coroner | 2 episodes |
| 1971–1974 | Cannon | Dr. Belden / Dr. Samuel Calvert / Gas Station Proprietor | 3 episodes |
| 1973 | Hunter | | Television movie |
| Barnaby Jones | Atken's Defense Counsel / Customs Officer | 2 episodes |
| 1974–1981 | The Waltons | Dr. Frederick Grover / Senator Rogers | 2 episodes |
| 1975 | The Rookies | Cook | Season 3 Episode 22: "Cliffy" |
| Huckleberry Finn | Harvey Wilkes | Television movie |
| 1977 | The Krofft Supershow | Old Dad | Episode 2: "Black Box, Parts 1 & 2" |
| Forever Fernwood | Elmo | Episode: #1.25 |
| Lou Grant | Old Man | Credited as William L. Erwin
Season 1 Episode 8: "Scoop" |
| Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo | Mr. Schneider | Television movie |
| 1979 | Struck by Lightning | Glenn Diamond | 4 episodes |
| 1981 | Eight Is Enough | Cal Fitzpatrick | Season 5 Episode 9: "Bradfordgate" |
| The Brady Girls Get Married | The Reverend | Miniseries though originally intended as a Television movie |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Clarence Stovall | Season 4 Episode 6: "The Great Bank Robbery" |
| The Rainbow Patch | Patch | Series lead |
| 1982 | Dallas | Abel Greeley | Season 5 Episode 21: "The Prodigal" |
| Moonlight | Dr. Tucker | Television movie |
| Drop-Out Father | Grandpa | Television movie |
| The Jeffersons | T.J. Wheeler | Season 9 Episode 8: "Death Smiles on a Dry Cleaner: Part 1" |
| 1983 | The Optimist | Grizzly Veteran | Season 1 Episode 2: "The Good, the Bad and the Nasty" |
| Ghost Dancing | Joe Greyfeather | Television movie |
| Voyagers! | Eisenhowers' Neighbor | Episode 19: "Barriers of Sound" |
| Hart to Hart | Sir Gavin MacLaish | Season 5 Episode 9: "Highland Fling" |
| Lone Star | Ezra Holloway | Television movie |
| 1984 | Hard Knox | General Garfield | Television movie |
| Falcon Crest | Night Editor | Season 3 Episode 17: "Power Play" |
| Invitation to Hell | Walt Henderson | Television movie |
| E/R | Mr. Williams | Episode 10: "Only a Nurse" |
| ABC Weekend Specials | Specter Inspector | Season 8 Episode 1: "Henry Hamilton Graduate Ghost" |
| 1984–1987 | Who's the Boss? | Leon / Santa Claus / Ted | 3 episodes |
| 1985 | Detective in the House | | Episode: "Whatever Happened To...?" |
| Generation | John | Television movie |
| Too Close for Comfort | Captain Milarzen | Credited as Bill Irwin
Season 5 episode 15: "No Deposit, No Return" |
| Silver Spoons | Senator Platt | Season 4 Episode 11: "The Barbarians" |
| Santa Barbara | Harold Beard | Episode: #1.361 |
| 1986–1987 | Highway to Heaven | Clarence Kelly / Santa | 3 episodes |
| 1986–1991 | Growing Pains | Various characters | 8 episodes |
| 1987 | On Fire | Joe's father | Television movie |
| Roxie | Kiner | Episode 2: "Dog Days" |
| Punky Brewster | Ben | Season 3 Episode 6: "Hands Across the Halls" |
| 1988 | High Mountain Rangers | | Episode 1: "The Only Place to Live" |
| Married... with Children | Hiram Massey | Season 2 Episode 16: "Master the Possibilities" |
| 1988–1990 | Just the Ten of Us | Mr. Pruitt / Barker / Ralphie | 4 episodes |
| 1989 | Moonlighting | Duncan Kennedy | Season 5 Episode 9: "Perfetc" |
| 1990 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Doctor Dalen Quaice | Season 4 Episode 5: "Remember Me" |
| 1991 | Quantum Leap | Mr. Deever | Season 4 Episode 3: "Hurricane - August 17, 1969" |
| Full House | Mr. Ferguson | Season 5 Episode 7: "The Volunteer" |
| Knots Landing | Mr. Wineke | Season 13 Episode 8: "House of Cards" |
| 1992 | The Golden Girls | Mr. Hubbard | Season 7 Episode 16: "Questions and Answers" |
| Harry and the Hendersons | Guest #1 | Season 3 Episode 6: "The Outing" |
| 1993 | Seinfeld | Sidney Fields | 2 episodes
Uncredited - 1 episode |
| Fallen Angels | Chick | Season 1 Episode 4 |
| The John Larroquette Show | Man #1 | Season 1 Episode 7: "Jumping Off the Wagon" |
| Against the Grain | Harold | Episode 8: "A House is Not a Home" |
| 1994 | Burke's Law | Noah Stark | Season 1 Episode 6: "Who Killed Alexander the Great?" |
| Search and Rescue | | Television movie |
| Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Andy Tucker | Season 2 Episode 6: "Operation Blackout" |
| 1995 | The Mommies | Chester | Season 2 Episode 7: "I Do, I Do Again" |
| Pig Sty | Jenkins | 2 episodes |
| Living Single | Mr. Foster | Season 2 Episode 27: "The Shake Up" |
| High Sierra Search and Rescue | Will | Episode 1: "If You Have to Ask the Price" |
| Live Shot | Vernon | Episode 7: "Where Towering Infernos" or simply "Towering Infernos" |
| The Jeff Foxworthy Show | Santa | Season 1 Episode 10: "Foxworthy Family Feud" |
| 1997 | Suddenly Susan | Mr. Tidgely | Season 1 Episode 14: "What a Card" |
| Grace Under Fire | Old Man | Season 4 Episode 21: "Quentin Gets His Gun" |
| The Drew Carey Show | Mr. Bradbury | Season 2 Episode 22: "Drew vs. Mimi: Part 2" |
| The Naked Truth | Victor | Season 3 Episode 10: "The Unsinkable Nora Wilde" |
| 2000 | The Michael Richards Show | Mr. Flaherty | Episode 5: "The Nursing Home" |
| 2001 | Boycott | Loading Dock Man #2 | Television movie |
| Just Shoot Me! | Mr. King | Credited as Bill Ewrin
Season 5 episode 17: "Where's Poppa?" |
| The West Wing | Ronald Cruikshank | Season 3 Episode 9: "The Women of Qumar" |
| 2002 | So Little Time | George | Episode 21: "The Volunteer" |
| Comedy Central Thanxgiveaway: Turkey vs. Pilgrims | Grandpa | Television movie |
| 2003 | Monk | Hiram Hollings | Season 2 Episode 5: "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man" |
| 2004 | The King of Queens | Whitey | Season 6 Episode 21: "Tank Heaven" |
| Everwood | Ollie | Season 2 Episode 19: "Sick" |
| 2006 | My Name Is Earl | Old Man playing Ping Pong | Season 2 Episode 5: "Van Hickey" (Final television role) |
