Sid Melton has died...was on Danny Thomas and Green Acres

[joeybee12]

...among many other shows...a very familiar face from my youth...RIP



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/arts/television/sid-melton-tv-and-film-actor-dies-at-94.html

Sid Melton, a jug-eared character actor best known for his regular roles in the television shows “Make Room for Daddy” and “Green Acres,” and for his unflagging reliability as the comic relief in many science fiction and noir films of the 1950s, died on Wednesday in Burbank, Calif. He was 94.

His death was confirmed by a spokesman for Providence St. Joseph Medical Center.

Mr. Melton’s acting career covered more than 70 years, from his stage debut in a road production of the Broadway play “See My Lawyer” in 1939 to a recurring role as the husband (deceased, appearing in flashbacks and dreams only) of Sophia, the mother of Bea Arthur’s character, on “The Golden Girls,” between 1985 and 1992.

At 5-foot-3, with a thin-lipped grin that stretched from ear to ear and the speaking voice of a Brooklyn cabby from about 1950, Mr. Melton played the funny man in most of the 140 movie and TV roles in which he was cast, though he once told a reporter that he would have loved “to do drama, not comedy.”

[WCGreen]

1. He was on a lot of those Desilu shows....

He was funny...

[immoderate]

2. I remember him from CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT!

Ichabod "Icky" Mudd -- with two "d"s.

--imm

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. wow...you have a long memory.

I am trying to remember Captain Midnight, it seem very vaguely familiar.

[immoderate]

7. Well, I remember things from my childhood quite well, like lines from Beany and Cecil...

But these days I can walk into a room, and not remember why I'm there. :shrug:

--imm

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Then you understand why my dog has a name tag!

[immoderate]

14. More...

The purpose of helmets was, in the event of a crash, to indicate where their heads once were. The plane was a model of a Douglas Skyrocket, which was essentially a cockpit and controls built onto a rocket.

Melton was the only character on the series with emotion. In a way, they were Abbott and Costello.

--imm

[Kahuna]

4. Wow, 94. R.I.P. Mr. Melton. nt

[RebelOne]

5. I remember him. RIP Sid. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

6. Great actor, lousy carpenter

[JohnnyRingo]

8. How sad.

I too enjoyed his career and loved it when Alf and Ralph Monroe appeared on Green Acres and stepped in through the walk-in closet, the door of which would invariably fall out into the yard. I can't for the life of me remember which one he was however. I don't think the show's writers intended me to. LOL

My other fave from that series was Hank Kimble, County Agent.

[ArnoldLayne]

11. You mean Hank County your Kimble Agent.

[JohnnyRingo]

16. LOL.... Flashback

I recall that as the show continued it got more and more bizarre. Eventually, there were Martians in the script that somehow befriended the clueless Eb Dawson, the farmhand who insisted on calling Oliver "dad".

The more outrageous episodes coincided with my awakening to uh... herbs, and it became a weekly tradition for me and my friends to meet up and laugh insidiously for half an hour.

I wish they'd give it another run.

[EFerrari]

9. He was a wonderful actor.

[valerief]

10. I remember him! Wow, he lived to be 94. Lucky him. The rest of us should be so lucky. nt

[xchrom]

12. he was really good at acting -- loved him. nt

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Alf Monroe of the Monroe brothers - another Green Acres cast member

dead and gone. I think the only regulars alive are Frank Cady (who is close to 100), the woman who played Ralph Monroe, and Tom Lester, who played Eb.