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18 Facts About Ricky Kelman

1.

Rickey William Kelman was born on July 6,1949 and is a former actor.

2.

Ricky Kelman had supporting roles in two single-season sitcoms, The Dennis O'Keefe Show on CBS and Our Man Higgins on ABC.

3.

On Our Man Higgins, Ricky Kelman was Tommy MacRoberts, one of the three children of a suburban American couple, Duncan and Alice MacRoberts, played by Frank Maxwell and Audrey Totter.

4.

Ricky Kelman appeared in all thirty-four episodes of Our Man Higgins, which might be loosely compared to the more successful NBC sitcom, Hazel starring Shirley Booth as a nosy housekeeper for an attorney, played by Don DeFore, his wife, and their son.

5.

Ricky Kelman had an uncredited role in the 1955 film A Man Called Peter, based on the life of Peter Marshall, the Presbyterian pastor who was twice appointed chaplain of the US Senate.

6.

In 1957, Ricky Kelman played "Elmer" in the final Ma and Pa Kettle film, The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm, the last screen role for Marjorie Main.

7.

Ricky Kelman's co-star was Parker Fennelly not Percy Kilbride.

8.

On January 2,1958, Ricky Kelman was Norman Fisher in the episode "The Big Jade" of NBC's pioneering police drama, Dragnet, starring Jack Webb.

9.

From 1958 to 1959, young Ricky Kelman played Homer Foley in three episodes of the NBC children's western series, Buckskin, with Tommy Nolan and Sally Brophy, as a son and his widowed mother living in a hotel in a small fictitious Montana community.

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In 1958, Kelman appeared in "The Unfamiliar" on Ronald W Reagan's CBS anthology series, General Electric Theater.

11.

In 1961, Ricky Kelman was cast in conflicting roles as John and Oliver Hadley in the episodes "The Bully" and "The Sissy", respectively, of NBC's National Velvet family drama series, starring Lori Martin as the teenaged equestrian Velvet Brown.

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Ricky Kelman appeared on CBS's Lassie in 1959 and twice in 1965.

13.

On November 29,1968, Ricky Kelman was cast as Donny Clement in the episode "The Fatal Hours" of the ABC police drama Felony Squad, with Howard Duff and Dennis Cole.

14.

On December 31,1969, Ricky Kelman played Quincy Rust in the episode "The Adversaries" of CBS's Medical Center with James Daly and Chad Everett.

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In 1970, Ricky Kelman appeared twice on ABC's high school comedy-drama, Room 222, as Dennis Joplin in "The New Boy" and as Craig in "Captain of the Team".

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Ricky Kelman was cast again with John Forsythe in his CBS sitcom, To Rome with Love.

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In 1972 and 1973, Ricky Kelman guest starred in episodes of CBS's Hawaii Five-O and Here's Lucy.

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Ricky Kelman's last acting appearances were in 1973 and 1974 in two episodes of the syndicated anthology series, Insight.