1. Sidney Meltzer, known professionally as Sid Melton, was an American actor.
18 Facts About Sid Melton
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Sid Melton played the roles of incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom Green Acres and Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, in The Danny Thomas Show and its spin-offs.
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Sid Melton appeared in about 140 film and television projects in a career that spanned nearly 60 years.
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Sid Melton was a regular on The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres, and appeared in flashback on several episodes of The Golden Girls as Salvadore Petrillo, the long-dead husband of Sophia and father of Dorothy.
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Sid Melton's father was Isidor Meltzer, a Yiddish theater comedian.
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Sid Melton made his stage debut in a 1939 touring production of See My Lawyer.
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Sid Melton's brother Lewis was a screenplay writer in Hollywood and had connections "in the industry," which led to Sid Melton being cast as Fingers in Shadow of the Thin Man.
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Sid Melton met screenwriter Aubrey Wisberg, who arranged for him to have a part in his Treasure of Monte Cristo for Robert Lippert.
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The studio churned out low-budget films, most of them made in less than a week, and Sid Melton was the comic relief in dozens of them, including Mask of the Dragon and Lost Continent.
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Sid Melton appeared in three Lippert Pictures, Hi-Jacked, Lost Continent and Radar Secret Service, later featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, whose hosts gave Melton the nickname "Monkey Boy" due to his comedy relief antics.
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Sid Melton directed the exploitation movie Bad Girls Do Cry.
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Sid Melton starred in another episode in which he plays a bellboy for a hotel in Nome, Alaska that Lucy and the gang are staying at.
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Sid Melton played Captain Midnight's sidekick, Ichabod "Icky" Mudd, in Captain Midnight, an early 1950s Saturday morning children's show.
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Sid Melton appeared in S6 E9 of The Andy Griffith Show as a publicity agent for Ruta Lee's character Darlene Mason.
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Sid Melton appeared in four episodes of the final two seasons of Gomer Pyle, USM.
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Sid Melton appeared in a humorous 1966 television commercial as a truck driver carrying new American Motors automobiles.
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Sid Melton was married in the 1940s, but the marriage was annulled.
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Sid Melton died from pneumonia on November 2,2011, aged 94, at Providence St Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.