The complete works of George Coe's career spanned decades, but to most of us, he will last be remembered as a friendly, beleaguered voice always willing to fetch a rug for the world's least smooth-talking spy. We mean, of course, the butler of Sterling Archer, Woodhouse.

Coe's career started in the late fifties on Broadway, and included a few film credits before his appearance on the first episode (and several subsequent ones) of Saturday Night Live. Over the years, Coe appeared in dozens of TV shows and films. He was the judge in the first Mighty Ducks film, voiced one of the autobots in Michael Bay's Transformers series, and had voiced Woodhouse for six seasons of Archer before passing away at the age of 86 this past weekend.

We asked Archer creator Adam Reed over e-mail to reflect on Archer's loyal-if-abused servant, and the legendary actor behind the voice.

How did George Coe come to the Woodhouse part? What about him made him the fit for the role?

George auditioned for the role of Woodhouse. When we're casting, we get all the auditions in and listen to them in one long session, hearing the same few lines over and over and over, so people tend to melt into the furniture. But two seconds into George's takes, everyone sat bolt upright, and it was like, "That's him. That's Woodhouse." The voice George had come up with for Woodhouse just had this sort of perfect "chipper sadness" to it.

Before Archer, was there a role he'd taken on that became the one that stuck most in your mind?

I really loved him as Sen. Stackhouse on The West Wing.

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What was your favorite joke or plot point involving Woodhouse in the past six seasons?

I liked the flashbacks to Archer's childhood where over time we realize it's always Woodhouse who was there for any big occasion in Archer's life. And small occasions, too, I suppose. He was essentially Archer's only parent. And for whatever reason, Archer is always, always terrible to him.

What's Woodhouse's fate at this point? There had been some teases at San Diego Comic-Con about big plans for Woodhouse in the next season that might have appeared in season six. Was that content recorded?

I'm not sure about Woodhouse's fate. It's too soon after George's passing to know for sure.

If we do see him again, will Sterling at least treat him like a person?

Sadly, probably not.

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