What do you know life about death? You talking existential being or anthropomorphic diety?

William Duell, who explained ska to Dick Clark and admonished Tommy Lasorda for trading Tommy John, has died of respiratory failure at the age of 88. The slight character actor is probably best known as the all-knowing Johnny the Snitch, who gave Frank Drebin the word on the street, for a price, between shoe shines on Police Squad! (in color), before explaining how to put out a fire in a furniture warehouse to a firefighter, or how to complete a coronary bypass in a patient with a history of sinus bradycardia to a surgeon. Other roles included Sefelt, an epileptic who was afraid of his meds in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the man who rang the Liberty Bell on stage and screen in 1776, and a quintessentially crusty New Englander who was less than helpful with directions in Funny Farm.