Paxton Whitehead, 'Back to School' actor who found humor in the stodgy, dies at 85 by Daniel E. Slotnik / The New York Times

Perhaps his best-known character was Philip Barbay, the uptight dean of a business school and the nemesis of Thornton Melon, Rodney Dangerfield's character, in "Back to School" (1986).

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