Jay Novello played Jack Packard on the Hollywood version of I Love a Mystery.
17 Facts About Jay Novello
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Jay Novello portrayed Cairo police Captain Sam Sabaaya on Rocky Jordan, Jamison the butler on the radio version of Lone Wolf, and Judge Glenn Hunter on One Man's Family.
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Jay Novello had roles on Escape, Crime Classics, Lux Radio Theater, Suspense, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Jay Novello played a recurring role as Mr Negley, the mailman on the radio show My Favorite Husband.
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One of his earliest and more familiar film appearances is in the 1945 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bullfighters, in which Jay Novello plays a Latin restaurateur.
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Jay Novello was limited mostly to bits in minor films, one of his notable being the officious Spanish consul in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles.
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Jay Novello was cast in a 1955 episode as Andre in "Sock Plays Cupid" of the NBC sitcom, The People's Choice.
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Jay Novello guest-starred in episodes of two ABC sitcoms, The Donna Reed Show as Nick Melinas in "The Love Letter" and on The Real McCoys, in which he plays the fiance of Gladys Purvis, the widowed mother of Kate McCoy.
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Jay Novello guest-starred as Beanie in the 1958 episode "Arson" of the CBS crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
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Jay Novello appeared in the syndicated crime drama Johnny Midnight.
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Jay Novello guest starred twice on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show, as the main character in the episode entitled "Guest of Honor" and as an opportunist lawyer in "Otis Sues the County".
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Jay Novello appeared on the television incarnation of Gangbusters as bank robber Willie Sutton.
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Jay Novello was cast as Guido Morales in the 1960 episode "Unsurrendered Sword" on the ABC series The Rebel.
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Jay Novello appeared as well as a pompous Coin collector in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Captain's Coins".
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Jay Novello played the Frenchman "Verenne" in Season 1, Episode 14 "An Act of War" in the TV series, 12 O'Clock High.
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Jay Novello played a scheming personal injury attorney in a Season 4 episode of Ironside.
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Jay Novello is interred in Los Angeles, California, at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery.