United Kingdom, Feb. 6 -- Charles C. Stevenson Jr has died aged 95.

The actor - who is best known for his role as Smitty the bartender on sitcom Will and Grace - passed away last month of natural causes.

His son Scott confirmed the news to Variety, and opened up about his late father's habit of landing roles like preachers, priests or pastors.

He said in a statement: "In his own words, his job was 'marrying or burying people,'

"As he told it, the panic-stricken director would invariably come to him to beg him to find a way to fill in unscripted space between 'We are gathered here together' (where he'd probably get his close-up) and the 'amen' at the end of the scene (where he usually wouldn't).

"Stevenson admitted that he got pretty ...