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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}}
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==Career==
===Early career===
Maggard 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 During an interview ofwith The Guardian in 2014, of the documentary film ''Ronald'', Maggard stated 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 Magga(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]]