David Byrd; TV, Movie Character Actor

David Byrd, 68, character actor in television, stage and such films as “The Hudsucker Proxy.” Byrd’s most recent appearances were as Sal Capetti in the 1999 motion picture “Thick as Thieves” and in his occasional role as Harry Stipe on the television series “Everybody Loves Raymond” last year. He memorably played an archbishop in the 1997 cable television docudrama “Mother Teresa: In the Name of God’s Poor.” Popular in small theaters, Byrd played Henry Higgins’ friend Col. Pickering in the South Coast Repertory’s production of “Pygmalion” in Costa Mesa in 1997. In his quarter-century career, Byrd also had continuing roles in television series, including the nearly blind copy editor Vincent Tully on the mid-1980s sitcom “Mary,” starring Mary Tyler Moore as a tabloid columnist. On Friday in Studio City of cancer.