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William Joseph Schallert (born July 6, 1922) is an American actor who has appeared in many movies and television series such as The Smurfs, The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol was an United States TV program that aired on American Broadcasting Company during the 1966-1968 seasons. The show followed the exploits of four Allies of World War II soldiers who were part of a long range desert patrol group in the North African Campaign during World War II....
, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
, The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show

The Patty Duke Show is an United States sitcom which ran on American Broadcasting Company from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966....
, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is a situation comedy that ran on CBS in the USA from 1959?1963. The television series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 in literature collection of short story of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 in film film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Debbie Reyno...
, and Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
.

llert was born in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

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, the son of Elza Emily (née Baumgarten) and Edwin Francis Schallert, a drama editor. Schallert has appeared in supporting roles on numerous television programs since the early 1950s.






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William Joseph Schallert (born July 6, 1922) is an American actor who has appeared in many movies and television series such as The Smurfs, The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol was an United States TV program that aired on American Broadcasting Company during the 1966-1968 seasons. The show followed the exploits of four Allies of World War II soldiers who were part of a long range desert patrol group in the North African Campaign during World War II....
, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
, The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show

The Patty Duke Show is an United States sitcom which ran on American Broadcasting Company from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966....
, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is a situation comedy that ran on CBS in the USA from 1959?1963. The television series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 in literature collection of short story of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 in film film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Debbie Reyno...
, and Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
.

Biography

Schallert was born in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, the son of Elza Emily (née Baumgarten) and Edwin Francis Schallert, a drama editor. Schallert has appeared in supporting roles on numerous television programs since the early 1950s. He has also appeared in several movies, including The Man from Planet X
The Man from Planet X

The Man From Planet X is a 1951 in film science fiction film starring Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and Raymond Bond. It was directed by Edgar G....
 with Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke

Robert Irby Clarke was an actor best known for his cult classic sci-fi films of the 1950?s....
, The Tarnished Angels
The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels is a 1958 in film United States drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner....
 with Robert Stack
Robert Stack

Robert Langford Modini Stack was an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award- nominated United States theater and movie actor. He was perhaps best known for his film acting as well as his role in the television series The Untouchables and as host of Unsolved Mysteries....
, In the Heat of the Night with Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger was an United States Academy Award-winning actor known for his intense performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night , Waterloo , On the Waterfront, and Doctor Zhivago ....
, The Jerk
The Jerk

The Jerk is a 1979 in film rags-to-riches-to-rags comedy film of belated self-discovery. This was Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film....
 with Steve Martin
Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....
, Speedway
Speedway (film)

Speedway is a 1968 in film action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver. Parts of the film were shot at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina and features the guest appearances of several of the top NASCAR drivers of the day....
 with Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
, and Innerspace
Innerspace

Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 in film sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage....
 which he played Martin Short's doctor. Also played an ambulance attendant in the early minutes of the 1950's sci-fi classic, "THEM!".

Schallert is known as patriarch Martin Lane on The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show

The Patty Duke Show is an United States sitcom which ran on American Broadcasting Company from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966....
 and as teacher Leander Pomfritt on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is a situation comedy that ran on CBS in the USA from 1959?1963. The television series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 in literature collection of short story of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 in film film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Debbie Reyno...
. Coincidentally, on both shows he worked opposite the late actress Jean Byron
Jean Byron

Jean Byron was an United States film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show....
. He is also very well known for playing the role of Nilz Baris on the Star Trek
Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969. Though the original series was titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from the spinoffs that followed, and from the Star Trek fi...
 episode entitled "The Trouble with Tribbles". He also appeared in the archive footage of that episode which was used in the popular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television program that premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, ending in 1999. Rooted in Gene Roddenberry?s Star Trek universe, it was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, and produced by CBS Paramount Television....
 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Schallert appeared in DS9 himself, in the second season episode "Sanctuary
Sanctuary (DS9 episode)

"Sanctuary" is an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the tenth episode of the second season. Among its guest stars are Kitty Swink, real-life wife of Armin Shimerman , and Josh Andrew Koenig, son of Walter Koenig ....
", in which he played Varani, a Bajoran
Bajoran

Bajorans, a race of Extraterrestrials in fiction in the fictional Star Trek universe, were introduced in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series and played an integral part in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series....
 musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
.

Schallert starred in an innovative 1964 TV pilot for ABC called Philbert, which combined live action camera work and animation. Created by Friz Freleng
Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, Film director, and Film producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
 and directed by Richard Donner
Richard Donner

Richard Donner is an United States film director, film producer, and comic book writer. The production company, The Donners' Company, is owned by Donner and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner....
, ABC backed out of the series shortly before full production was to begin, though the completed pilot was released in theaters as a short subject.

Schallert played the role of Carson Drew in the popular television series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on American Broadcasting Company. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy , respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew....
, featuring Pamela Sue Martin
Pamela Sue Martin

Pamela Sue Martin , is an American actress best known for playing Nancy Drew on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV series and Fallon Carrington Colby on the American Broadcasting Company nighttime soap opera Dynasty ....
 as Nancy Drew, which ran from 1977-1979.

He was president of the Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild is an American trade union representing over 120,000 film and television actor and extra worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; col...
 from 1979 to 1981 (his former co-star and TV daughter, Patty Duke
Patty Duke

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an Academy Awards-, three-time Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning United States actress of Theatre and film....
, would follow him from 1985 to 1988).

He continues to work steadily, appearing most recently in a 2007 episode of How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother is an United States situation comedy that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays....
, the 2008 HBO made for television movie Recount (film)
Recount (film)

Recount is an 60th Primetime Emmy Awards winning 2008 television movie about the United States presidential election, 2000 in the United States....
 as U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme court

A supreme court, also called a court of last resort or high court, is in some jurisdictions the highest court within that jurisdiction's court system, whose rulings are not subject to further review by another court....
 Associate Justice
Associate Justice

Associate Justice or Associate Judge is the title for a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice in some jurisdictions. The title "Associate Justice" is used for members of the United States Supreme Court and some state supreme courts, and for some other courts in Commonwealth of Nations countries....
 John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens

John Paul Stevens is the senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He joined the Supreme Court of the United States in 1975 and is the oldest member of the Court....
, the HBO series True Blood
True Blood

True Blood is an Television in the United States Drama created and Executive producer#Television by Alan Ball . It is based on the Sookie Stackhouse book series by Charlaine Harris....
, and his distinctive voice continues to bring him work for commercial and animation voiceovers.

Filmography

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured both mystery fiction and melodramas....
  • The Andy Griffith Show
    The Andy Griffith Show

    The Andy Griffith Show is an Television of the United States situation comedy first televised by Columbia Broadcasting System between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968....
  • Archie Bunker's Place
    Archie Bunker's Place

    Archie Bunker's Place is an United States sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 in television as a continuation of All in the Family....
  • Bewitched
    Bewitched

    Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1964 in television to 1972 in television....
  • Bonanza
    Bonanza

    Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....
  • Coach
    Coach (TV series)

    Coach is an American television sitcom that aired for nine seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1989 to 1997. The series starred Craig T....
  • COronado 9
    COronado 9

    COronado 9 is a Television syndication crime drama set in San Diego, California, California, starring Rod Cameron as Dan Adams, a former United States Navy intelligence officer turned private detective....
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show
    The Dick Van Dyke Show

    The Dick Van Dyke Show is an United States television situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 and ran until June 1, 1966....
  • The Donna Reed Show
    The Donna Reed Show

    The Donna Reed Show is an United States situation comedy which aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1958 in television to 1966 in television....
  • Father Knows Best
    Father Knows Best

    Father Knows Best is a long-run United States radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s....
  • Get Smart
    Get Smart

    Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
  • The Girl with Something Extra
    The Girl with Something Extra

    The Girl with Something Extra was an United States fantasy-based situation comedy television series that aired on NBC for one season during 1973-1974....
  • Gray Ghost
    Gray Ghost (TV series)

    Gray Ghost is a Television syndication black and white television series which aired from October 10, 1957, to July 3, 1958. It depicts the true story of Major John Singleton Mosby, an Virginia officer in the Confederate States Army, whose cunning and stealth earned him the nickname "Gray Ghost"....
  • Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
  • The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-79)
  • Hazel
    Hazel (TV series)

    Hazel is a Screen Gems television series about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series first aired September 1961-April 1966....
  • Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O

    Hawaii Five-O is an United States television series that starred Jack Lord as Lead Detective for a fictional Hawaii state police department....
  • Have Gun — Will Travel
    Have Gun — Will Travel

    Have Gun — Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated either number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings during each year of its first four seasons....
  • How I Met Your Mother
    How I Met Your Mother

    How I Met Your Mother is an United States situation comedy that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays....
  • Innerspace
    Innerspace

    Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 in film sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage....
  • Leave It to Beaver
    Leave It to Beaver

    Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American television situation comedy about an inquisitive but often naive boy named Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood....
  • Little House on the Prairie
    Little House on the Prairie (TV series)

    Little House on the Prairie is an United States one-hour dramatic television program that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1974, to March 21, 1983, bumping the long-running Adam-12 series to Tuesday nights....
  • Little Women
    Little Women (1978 film)

    Little Women is a 1978 romantic family drama television film directed by David Lowell Rich and based upon Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The screenplay was written by Suzanne Clauser....
  • Love American Style
  • The Lucy Show
    The Lucy Show

    The Lucy Show is a television series which ran from 1962 until 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. The premise and the cast changed frequently, with only Gale Gordon lasting most of the run of the show ....
  • Matinee
    Matinee (film)

    Matinee is a 1993 in film Period piece comedy film directed by Joe Dante. It is an Ensemble cast piece about the home front in the Cuban Missile Crisis combined with a tribute to independent filmmaker William Castle....
  • Maverick
    Maverick (TV series)

    Maverick is a comedy-western movie television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on American Broadcasting Company and featured James Garner, Jack Kelly , Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing traveling Mavericks ....
  • Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible

    Mission: Impossible began as an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret United States government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force ....
  • My Name Is Earl
    My Name Is Earl

    My Name Is Earl is an United States situation comedy created by Gregory Thomas Garcia. It is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. In the United States of America it is broadcast on the NBC television network Thursdays at 8:00 PM Eastern time....
  • The New Gidget
    The New Gidget

    The New Gidget is a television Situation comedy that aired in Television syndication from 1986 in television to 1988 in television. The series was produced by original Gidget series producer Harry Ackerman and was launched after the television movie Gidget's Summer Reunion starring Caryn Richman as Gidget aired in 1985 in televis...
  • The Partridge Family
    The Partridge Family

    The Partridge Family is an United States television Situation comedy about a widowed mother and her five children who embarked on a music career....
  • Perry Mason
    Perry Mason (TV series)

    Perry Mason is an Emmy Award-winning American TV series that ran from 1957 in television to 1966 in television. Perry Mason was played by actor Raymond Burr....
  • Rawhide
    Rawhide

    Rawhide is a Hides or animal skin that has not been exposed to tanning. It is much lighter in color than leather made by traditional vegetable tanning....
  • Room 222
    Room 222

    Room 222 is an United States television comedy-drama produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 17, 1969 to January 11, 1974 for 112 episodes....
  • Peege
    Peege

    Peege is an award-winning short film film school, written and directed by Randal Kleiser, about a family's visit to a elderly relative in a nursing home....
  • Speedway
    Speedway

    Speedway may refer to:...
  • Suite Life of Zack and Cody
  • The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a Walt Disney film from 1969 in film, starring Alan Hewitt, Kurt Russell, Frank Webb, and Joe Flynn .It was the first in a trilogy of films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College....
  • The Torkelsons
  • The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

    The Twilight Zone is a science fiction anthology series United States television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains television syndication to this day....
  • The Waltons
    The Waltons

    The Waltons is an United States television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 Spencer's Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara....
  • The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West

    The Wild Wild West is an United States television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." It was one of the first television...
  • Them!
  • Zorro (1957 TV series) First Season Television Episode, Airdate: 12/05/57, titled "A Fair Trial"; Schallert plays an Innkeeper (http://www.billcotter.com/zorro/episodes-first-season.htm)

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