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{{Infobox person
| name = Joe Maggard
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| birth_name = Joseph Maggard
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|12|8}}
(contracted; show full)d original served in the Vietnam War from 1974 to 1976. After returning from the army, he began working as a deputy sheriff for the Brunswick County North Carolina Sheriff's Department in North Carolina. Serving three years as a sheriff before getting into acting in 1989.<ref>https://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/food/ronald-touching-interview-actor-who-played-ronald-mcdonald-12-years</ref>

===Ronald McDonald scam===
Maggard stated in an interview of The Guardian in 2014, that he portrayed the 
[[Ronald McDonald]] character from 1995 to 2007, replacing Jack Depke. However, in a 2003 article by The Baltimore Sun, McDonald's said that  Maggard was only a stand-in actor for one commercial shoot only in the mid 90s and stated that "he's defiantly not Ronald McDonald". In 1998, he was charged of carrying a weapon in the New Hanover County, N.C. and the following year he was convicted in making harassing telephone calls posing as Ronald. The judge ordered Maggard to take anger management classes.<re(contracted; show full)
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[[Category:1955 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American television actors]]
[[Category:Actors from Kentucky]]

[[en:Ronald McDonald#Actors]]