Ed Williams, the onetime broadcasting teacher who portrayed Ted Olson, the earnest lab scientist with a pocket protector and a kinky side, on the Police Squad! TV show and original Naked Gun movies, has died. He was 98.

Williams died Oct. 2 in Los Angeles, his granddaughter Stephanie Williams told The Hollywood Reporter .

Williams often played reverends, priests and ministers, and he was the man who married Annie Banks (Kimberly Williams) and Bryan MacKenzie (George Newbern) in Father of the Bride (1991), starring Steve Martin and Diane Keaton .

Ed Williams, the onetime broadcasting teacher who portrayed Ted Olson, the earnest lab scientist with a pocket protector and a kinky side, on the Police Squad! TV show and original Naked Gun movies, has died. He was 98.

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