It’s bugging me for some reason. I feel compelled to know who this guy is, but I don’t know why.
All I know is that he seemed to be in various second fiddle roles in the 1950s or so. He may have been on I Love Lucy. He typically played some random part, like a local merchant who gives Lucy a hard time … or someone’s boss … but I don’t think he was ever a major player. Maybe he showed up on an episode of The Twilight Zone. Who knows? He’s one of those guys you seem to see in a lot of two-bit parts on various shows. You might see him in a show and say, “Hey! There’s that guy again!”
In that era, I’d say he was about late 40s or maybe into his 50s? White guy. Bald. He had a very unique voice… kind of high pitched and “whispery.”
There was the guy whose signature exclamation was a smarmy “ooooooo” and he played lots of obnoxious retailers on several shows in the 50’s and 60’s, but I forget his name.
There was also this guy who played a lot of bosses.
Missed edit. He spelled it Gale Gordon. Seems he always played a salesman or a waiter or something like that . He had a distinctive “YEEEES” salutation in uplifting tone evry time he made an entrance.
The pic in wiki is when he was quite a bit older. I think he played lucy’s boss in the lucy show.
Gale Gordon was on The Lucy Show, I think – but will check. He was known for being a master of perfect enuncit…enunsiat…Nevermind. I can’t say it right.
I checked at IMDB. He was on three of Lucille Ball’s post I Love Lucy series. On the series mentioned above, The Lucy Show, he played Mr. Theodore J. Mooney, Lucy’s boss.
Gale Gordon also played Lucy’s husband’s boss on the radio show she starred in just before I Love Lucy. Frank Nelson also shows up as several characters, such as waiters and shop assistants, on the radio show–as noted, that YEEESS? of his is distinctive.
You can hear episodes of the radio show, “My Favorite Husband,” on the I Love Lucy DVDs. They’re getting to be my favorite part of Netflixing Lucy.