William Schallert
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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.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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50% | Green Lantern: First Flight |
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— | 2009 |
67% | Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Shield for Murder |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Harvey |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Second Civil War |
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— | 1997 |
92% | Matinee |
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— | 1992 |
21% | House Party 2 |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The Incident |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Stableboy's Christmas |
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— | 1990 |
82% | Innerspace |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Under the Influence |
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— | 1986 |
67% | Teachers |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Amazons |
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— | 1984 |
57% | Twilight Zone: The Movie |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Through Naked Eyes |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Grace Kelly |
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— | 1983 |
40% | Hangar 18 |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Doomsday Chronicles |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Little Women |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Ike: The War Years |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Tunnel Vision (Tunnelvision) |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Strongest Man in the World |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Death Sentence |
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— | 1974 |
83% | Charley Varrick |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Man on a String |
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— | 1971 |
88% | Colossus: The Forbin Project |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Sam Whiskey |
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— | 1969 |
50% | The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Speedway |
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— | 1968 |
85% | Will Penny |
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— | 1968 |
86% | Hour of the Gun |
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— | 1967 |
95% | In the Heat of the Night |
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— | 1967 |
93% | Lonely are the Brave |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The Gallant Hours |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Blue Denim |
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— | 1959 |
93% | Pillow Talk |
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— | 1959 |
100% | Day of the Outlaw |
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— | 1959 |
83% | Some Came Running |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | Cry Terror! |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Monolith Monsters |
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— | 1958 |
100% | The Tarnished Angels |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Story of Mankind |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Man in the Shadow |
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— | 1957 |
40% | Band of Angels |
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— | 1957 |
82% | Written on the Wind |
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— | 1957 |
92% | The Incredible Shrinking Man |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The Tattered Dress |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Gunslinger |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Raw Edge |
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— | 1956 |
88% | Friendly Persuasion |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Black Tuesday |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | An Annapolis Story |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Smoke Signal |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Hell's Horizon |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Tobor the Great |
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— | 1954 |
97% | Them! |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Gog |
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— | 1954 |
33% | The High and the Mighty |
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— | 1954 |
100% | Riot in Cell Block 11 |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Sword of Venus |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Torpedo Alley |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Flat Top |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Invasion U.S.A. |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Hoodlum Empire |
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— | 1952 |
100% | The Man from Planet X |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The People Against O'Hara |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The Reckless Moment |
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— | 1949 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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21% |
Stephen King's Bag of Bones
2011
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70% |
True Blood
2008-2014
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No Score Yet |
Medium
2005-2011
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16% |
The Deep End
2010
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72% |
Desperate Housewives
2004-2012
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No Score Yet |
Comment je l'ai rencontrée
2005-2013
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83% |
How I Met Your Mother
2005-2014
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65% |
Close to Home
2005-2007
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82% |
My Name Is Earl
2005-2009
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No Score Yet |
Pacific Blue
1996-2000
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90% |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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No Score Yet |
Coach
1989-1997
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86% |
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993-1997
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70% |
The Torkelsons
1991-1993
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No Score Yet |
In the Heat of the Night
1988-1995
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No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown
1988-2019
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No Score Yet |
Quantum Leap
1989-1993
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No Score Yet |
War and Remembrance
1988-1989
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No Score Yet |
Highway to Heaven
1984-1989
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No Score Yet |
St. Elsewhere
1982-1988
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
Little House on the Prairie
1974-1984
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No Score Yet |
The Waltons
1972-1981
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No Score Yet |
CHiPs
1977-1983
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No Score Yet |
Maude
1972-1978
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No Score Yet |
The Bionic Woman
1976-1978
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No Score Yet |
Kung Fu
1972-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Partridge Family
1970-1974
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No Score Yet |
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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No Score Yet |
Get Smart
1965-1970
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No Score Yet |
Bewitched
1964-1972
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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80% |
Star Trek
1966-1969
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961-1966
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Maverick
1957-1962
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No Score Yet |
Leave It to Beaver
1957-1963
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No Score Yet |
Almost Home
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