[Mike Bates]

Schallert has touched on more of the mid level popular culture than most any other character actor in my lifetime.

It's a pity he's a typical Hollywood Lefty.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[speedy]

No question he's a lefty, like most of them. But he was a pretty nice guy for the short time I got to talk to him; maybe that's because we were talking sitcoms instead of politics.