# Id this actor \[1971 television program\]?

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**Created:** [May 4, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-actor-1971-television-program/963965 "2022-05-04T20:25:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
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This could just be an anonymous extra. However, I think it looks like a rather (shortly thereafter) well-known actor of that era. If no one else thinks it’s “anybody,” I’ll say who I thought it might be (I’d give a 3 on a scale of 1-10).

[Pic](https://imgur.com/a/QYXhbeF)

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-actor-1971-television-program/963965/2 "2022-05-04T20:28:53Z")

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> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> (I’d give a 3 on a scale of 1-10)

What scale is that ?  
Mohs ?

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-actor-1971-television-program/963965/3 "2022-05-04T20:34:54Z")

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That was last night’s METV Carol Burnett Show S5E14, but he’s not listed in the IMDb credits

I assumed he was one of the company dancers

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-actor-1971-television-program/963965/4 "2022-05-04T20:57:06Z")

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I think it might be Carlton Johnson.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-actor-1971-television-program/963965/5 "2022-05-04T21:16:53Z")

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Carlton Johnson

Good call. He was in 35 episodes of the Carol Burnett Show, often as a dancer or singer. He also appeared on the screen in a few other films, usually as a dancer. (And he was Head Winkie on _The Wiz_.)

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-actor-1971-television-program/963965/6 "2022-05-04T21:24:27Z")

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Thanks, I’ll take that under advisement. It’s certainly more plausible than my first guess, which was Clifton Davis, who would later have his own (summer replacement) variety series, which was run in place of. . . Carol Burnett.