William Schallert

Highest Rated: 100% The Tarnished Angels (1958)

Lowest Rated: 21% House Party 2 (1991)

Birthday: Jul 6, 1922

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

The son of the Los Angeles Times' drama editor, William Schallert was, along with Sydney Chaplin, one of the co-founders of Hollywood's highly regarded Circle Theatre troupe. Sent to Great Britain on a Fulbright Fellowship to study British repertory theatre, Schallert guest-lectured at Oxford on several occasion before heading home. A character actor of almost intimidating versatility, Schallert began his long film and TV career in 1951. While he appeared in films of every variety, Schallert was most closely associated with the many doctors (mad or otherwise), lab technicians and scientific experts that he played in such science fiction endeavors as The Man From Planet X (1951), Gog (1954), Them! (1954) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and The Monolith Monsters (1959). Director Joe Dante paid homage to Schallert's prolific horror-flick work by casting the actor in his Matinee, where he played yet another dabbler in Things Man Is Not Meant to Know in the film-within-a-film "Mant." Schallert's hundreds television credits could fill a book in themselves; the Nickelodeon cable network once tried to put together a montage of the actor's guest star appearances, touching only the tip of the iceberg. He was a regular on such series as Dobie Gillis (as literature teacher Mr. Pomfrit, who always dismissed his class as though announcing the beginning of the Indy 500), Get Smart (as a senile 97-year-old Navy admiral), The Nancy Drew Mysteries (as Nancy's attorney father) The New Gidget (as Gidget's professor father) The Nancy Walker Show, Little Women and Santa Barbara. His most famous TV role was as Patty Lane's ever-patient newspaper-editor dad on The Patty Duke Show, which ran from 1963 through 1966; over twenty years later, Mr. Schallert and Ms. Duke were touchingly reunited--again as father and daughter--on an episode of The Torkelsons (1991-92). William Schallert once served as president of the Screen Actors' Guild, a position later held...by Patty Duke. Shallert continued acting until the early 2010s; he died in 2016, at age 93.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
50%	Green Lantern: First Flight	Appa Ali Apsa	—	2009
67%	Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Shield for Murder	Assistant District Attorney	—	2003
No Score Yet	Harvey	Judge Gaffney	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights	Martin Lane	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Second Civil War	Secretary of Defense	—	1997
94%	Matinee	Doctor	—	1992
21%	House Party 2	Dean Kramer	—	1991
No Score Yet	Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love	Sheriff	—	1991
No Score Yet	Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story	Landrum Bolling	—	1991
No Score Yet	The Incident	Wallace	—	1990
No Score Yet	Stableboy's Christmas	Innkeeper	—	1990
82%	Innerspace	Dr. Greenbush	—	1987
No Score Yet	Under the Influence	Cade	—	1986
62%	Teachers	Horn	—	1984
No Score Yet	Amazons	Congressman Stanford Barstow	—	1984
58%	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Father	—	1983
No Score Yet	Through Naked Eyes	William's Father	—	1983
No Score Yet	Grace Kelly	Actor	—	1983
No Score Yet	Hangar 18	Mills	—	1980
No Score Yet	Doomsday Chronicles	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Little Women	Jonathan March	—	1978
No Score Yet	Ike: The War Years	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	Tunnel Vision (Tunnelvision)	Francis X. Cody	—	1976
No Score Yet	The Strongest Man in the World	Quigley	—	1975
No Score Yet	Death Sentence	Tanner	—	1974
80%	Charley Varrick	Sheriff Bill Horton	—	1973
No Score Yet	The Trial of the Catonsville Nine	Judge	—	1972
No Score Yet	Man on a String	Actor	—	1971
88%	Colossus: The Forbin Project	CIA Director Grauber	—	1970
No Score Yet	Sam Whiskey	Mint Superintendent Perkins	—	1969
50%	The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes	Prof. Quigley	—	1969
No Score Yet	Speedway	Abel Esterlake	—	1968
85%	Will Penny	Dr. Fraker	—	1968
86%	Hour of the Gun	Herman Spicer	—	1967
96%	In the Heat of the Night	Schubert	—	1967
92%	Lonely are the Brave	Harry	—	1962
No Score Yet	The Gallant Hours	Capt. Tom Lanphier	—	1960
No Score Yet	Blue Denim	Vice President	—	1959
93%	Pillow Talk	Hotel Clerk	—	1959
No Score Yet	Day of the Outlaw	Preston	—	1959
83%	Some Came Running	Al	—	1959
No Score Yet	Cry Terror!	Henderson	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Monolith Monsters	Weatherman	—	1958
100%	The Tarnished Angels	Ted Baker	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Story of Mankind	Earl of Warwick	—	1957
No Score Yet	Man in the Shadow	Jim Shaney	—	1957
40%	Band of Angels	Union Lieutenant	—	1957
81%	Written on the Wind	Reporter	—	1957
92%	The Incredible Shrinking Man	Dr. Arthur Bramson	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Tattered Dress	Court Clerk	—	1957
No Score Yet	Gunslinger	Scott Hood	—	1956
No Score Yet	Raw Edge	Missionary	—	1956
88%	Friendly Persuasion	Young Husband	—	1956
No Score Yet	Black Tuesday	Collins	—	1955
No Score Yet	An Annapolis Story	Tony's instructor	—	1955
No Score Yet	Smoke Signal	Pvt. Livingston	—	1955
No Score Yet	Hell's Horizon	Actor	—	1955
No Score Yet	Tobor the Great	Johnston	—	1954
100%	Them!	Ambulance Attendant	—	1954
No Score Yet	Gog	Engle	—	1954
25%	The High and the Mighty	Dispatcher	—	1954
100%	Riot in Cell Block 11	Reporter	—	1954
No Score Yet	Sword of Venus	Valmont	—	1953
No Score Yet	Torpedo Alley	Actor	—	1953
No Score Yet	Flat Top	Longfellow	—	1952
No Score Yet	Invasion U.S.A.	TV Newscaster	—	1952
No Score Yet	Hoodlum Empire	Inquiry Clerk	—	1952
100%	The Man from Planet X	Mears	—	1951
No Score Yet	The People Against O'Hara	Intern	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Reckless Moment	Lieutenant	—	1949

TV

		Credit
21%	Stephen King's Bag of Bones 2011	Max	2011
70%	True Blood 2008-2014	Mayor Norris	2011
No Score Yet	Medium 2005-2011	J. Donald Kessinger	2010
7%	The Deep End 2010	Mr. Douglas	2010
72%	Desperate Housewives 2004-2012	Ken	2009
65%	Close to Home 2005-2007	Harold Jensen	2006
82%	My Name Is Earl 2005-2009	Dr. Rudin	2006 2005
No Score Yet	Pacific Blue 1996-2000	Walter	1999
90%	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1993-1999	Appearing Varani	1998 1996 1993
No Score Yet	ER 1994-2009	Mitchell Jennings	1996
No Score Yet	Coach 1989-1997	Bert	1994
86%	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 1993-1997	Al	1994
70%	The Torkelsons 1991-1993	Wesley Hodges	1992 1991
No Score Yet	Murphy Brown 1988		1990 1989
No Score Yet	Quantum Leap 1989-1993	Judge	1989
No Score Yet	War and Remembrance 1988-1989	Harry Hopkins	1988
No Score Yet	Highway to Heaven 1984-1989	Grandpa	1987
No Score Yet	St. Elsewhere 1982-1988	Dr. Stanley	1987 1986
No Score Yet	Magnum, P.I. 1980-1988	Bob	1983
No Score Yet	Little House on the Prairie 1974-1984	Dean Russell Harmon Snell	1982 1980 1979 1978 1976
No Score Yet	The Waltons 1972-1981	Stanley	1981 1980
No Score Yet	CHiPs 1977-1983	Rev. Warmer	1979
No Score Yet	Maude 1972-1978	Leon	1976
No Score Yet	The Bionic Woman 1976-1978	Uncle Bill	1976
No Score Yet	Kung Fu 1972-1975	Roper	1973
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Caretaker Arkoff	1973 1967
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Ezra Thorpe Spence Capt. Grant Jess Peavy Cordelius	1973 1970 1968 1963 1962 1958
No Score Yet	The Partridge Family 1970-1974	Red Woodloe	1971
No Score Yet	Marcus Welby, M.D. 1969-1976		1970
No Score Yet	Get Smart 1965-1970	Hargarde Hargrade Kibbee	1970 1968 1967
No Score Yet	Bewitched 1964-1972	Anton	1969
No Score Yet	Mission: Impossible 1966-1973	Dr. Harrison Selby	1969 1967
No Score Yet	The Wild Wild West 1965-1969	Silas Harper	1969 1968 1967 1965
80%	Star Trek 1966-1969	Baris	1967
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	Gunderson	1962
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Norton	1962
No Score Yet	The Dick Van Dyke Show 1961-1966	Mr. Kirk	1962
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Graves Dykes Dr. Bradbury	1962 1961 1957
No Score Yet	Rawhide 1959-1965	Hill	1961
No Score Yet	The Andy Griffith Show 1960-1968	Sam Becker	1961
80%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Policeman	1960
No Score Yet	Maverick 1957-1962	Carl	1959 1958
No Score Yet	Leave It to Beaver 1957-1963	Mr. Bloomgarden	1957
No Score Yet	Almost Home	Wesley Hodges

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