Allan Melvin

Allan Melvin
Born
Allan John Melvin

(1923-02-18)February 18, 1923
DiedJanuary 17, 2008(2008-01-17) (aged 84)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • impressionist
Years active1947–1994
Spouse
Amalia Faustina Sestero
(m. 1944)
Children2

Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008)[1] was an American actor and impressionist, who was cast in hundreds of television episodes from the 1950s to the early 1990s, often appearing in recurring roles on various series. Some of those roles and series include portraying various characters on: The Andy Griffith Show, as real estate salesman Pete Dudley in My Favorite Martian, as Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show, Sergeant Hacker on Gomer Pyle, USMC, Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch, and as Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on both All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place. He has also voiced Tyrone the Bulldog, an archvillain (with his aliases The Jester, The Puzzler, Poochquin, Sheriff of Sherwood, and many others) in the live-action/animated series The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty and was Magilla Gorilla on The Magilla Gorilla Show, as well as Drooper on The Banana Splits.

  1. ^ ""Brady Bunch" actor Allan Melvin dies in Los Angeles at 84". cbc.ca. January 19, 2008. Archived from the original on January 23, 2008. Retrieved September 21, 2019.