Broderick to appear on ‘Modern Family’


Actor Matthew Broderick arrives for the taping of |*|TV Land Presents: AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Morgan Freeman|*|, at Sony Studios in Culver City, California on June 9, 2011. The special will air June 19th on TV Land.  UPI/Jim Ruymen

Actor Matthew Broderick is to make a guest appearance on the upcoming season of the U.S. sitcom “Modern Family,” ABC announced Friday.

The star of the film “Ferris Bueller”s Day Off” and Broadway”s “The Producers” will play a neurotic new friend of Ty Burrell”s character Phil, the network said.

Season 4 of the show is to begin next Wednesday.

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