Lee Weaver Dead: ‘Bill Cosby Show’ & ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’ Actor Was 95

Lee Weaver, the actor best known for appearing on The Bill Cosby Show and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, is dead at 95.

In early November, Weaver’s family announced the news following his September 22 death at his home in Los Angeles, California, per The Hollywood Reporter. He “wove joy, depth and representation into every role he played and everything he did,” they said in a statement.

The Bill Cosby Show aired from 1969 to 1981, and it starred Bill Cosby as a high school gym teacher named Chet Kincaid. Weaver played his brother, Brian Kincaid. Additionally, Weaver portrayed a blind seer in the Coen brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and appeared alongside Steve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). Other film credits include Vanishing Point (1971), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Bulworth (1998), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and Donnie Darko (2001),

Meanwhile, others may remember Weaver as the exhibitionist character, Buck Naked, on Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue. He also appeared in TV shows such as My Name is Earl, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Grace and Frankie.

In 1948, Weaver co-founded the folk music group, The Weavers, with Pete Seger; he sang bass. Weaver’s former bandmate, Louis Hayes, paid tribute to him via Facebook in the wake of his death.

“Louis Hayes extends his condolences to the family of Lee Weaver, a dear friend who made his transition recently, at age 95,” the post read. “For those of you that are unfamiliar with him, Lee Weaver enjoyed a long, successful career as a veteran character actor of some very well known TV shows and films, going back as far as the 1950s. He was also a vocalist, a childhood friend of Cannonball Adderley and a longtime supporter of Jazz music.”

Weaver is survived by his wife of 54 years, actress Ta-Tanisha, and their daughter, Leis La-Te.