{"id":1514,"date":"2026-02-06T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:10:50","slug":"will-grace-actor-dies-at-95-as-heartbroken-son-pays-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Will &#038; Grace actor dies at 95 as heartbroken son pays tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"262\">Veteran actor <strong data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"102\">Charles C. Stevenson Jr.<\/strong>, best known as bartender <strong data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"156\">Smitty on <em data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"154\">Will &amp; Grace<\/em><\/strong>, has died of natural causes on <strong data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"202\">January 19<\/strong> in Camarillo, California, his son confirmed. He was <strong data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"261\">89<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"717\">Stevenson appeared in <strong data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"322\">12 episodes across seven seasons<\/strong> of <em data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"340\">Will &amp; Grace<\/em> from 2002 to 2020, with his final appearance airing in February 2020. A longtime character actor, he built a career spanning decades, with film roles in <strong data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"550\">The Naked Gun, Ed Wood, Men in Black, Pleasantville,<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"570\">Ghost World<\/strong>, and TV appearances on shows including <strong data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"687\">Cheers, L.A. Law, Murder, She Wrote, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Office,<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"716\">Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"719\" data-end=\"946\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Born in Piedmont, California, Stevenson served in the Navy during the Korean War, studied English at UC Berkeley, and later became an actor. He is survived by <strong data-start=\"878\" data-end=\"945\">five children, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Veteran actor Charles C. Stevenson Jr., best known as bartender Smitty on Will &amp; Grace, has died of natural causes on January 19 in Camarillo, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1514\" title=\"Will &#038; Grace actor dies at 95 as heartbroken son pays tribute\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}