Sid Melton
Posted on 11/07/2011 10:10:42 AM PST by massmike
Sid Melton, the 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.
Mr. Melton’s acting career spanned more than a half-century, 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 in “The GoldenGirls,” the television sitcom, between 1985 and 1992.
He also played Alf Monroe, one of two incompetent carpenter siblings on the improbable, campy and very popular sitcom, “Green Acres,” which ran from 1965 to 1971. A recurring gag was that Alf’s “brother” Ralph was a woman, a fact that only Oliver, played by Eddie Albert, seemed to find odd.
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Sid Melton
He was funny.
Prayers.
R.I.P. I never knew his name, now I do.
I liked “Green Acres” tho never could understand why my Brother-in-Law was just crazy over it.
It seems to me it took the idea that everyone was crazy except Mr. Douglas. That is why his nutty wife blended right in at Hooterville.
I remember he and I were in the unemployment lines together during the 70s in the Hollywood office.
He was great in “Green Acres”! That whole cast is about gone by now I would imagine.
I liked when Mr. Douglas went to Sam Drucker’s store to buy board games. Drucker tells him he has Cabbage and Monotony. Douglas corrects him that they are Cribbage and Monopoly. Drucker pulls out the boxes that say Cabbage and Monotony.
I’m listening..........
That show was a laff-riot
Especially with what i was smoking back in those days
Tom Lester (”Eb Dawson”) is still around at a young 73.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight#Television_and_films
Listening to what?
Way back in those days you stood in line. Not anymore ... although I have not been unemployed in 21 years. Knock on wood ...
Frank Cady (aka Sam Drucker) is still alive
His character’s brother, “Ralph” Monroe (Mary Grace Canfield) is still around, too.
Didn’t know that, thanks!
I liked him in “When Worlds Collide” — hoping that remake will eventually get made.
My Daughter attended “First Baptist Church Christian School” for grammar school. One day “Eb” stopped by and talked to the class. He was a devoted Christian.
I thought you were “in the business”.
My misread.
LOL!
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