# Obscure actor RIPs:  S. John Launer and Herbert Rudley

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**Created:** [October 23, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-actor-rips-s-john-launer-and-herbert-rudley/377582 "2006-10-23T15:50:25Z")\
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[S. John Launer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490961/) did bit roles in his long career, usually a judge or some other balding bespectacled authority figure. I remember him mainly from numerous appearances on the 1960s “Dragnet” show.  
[Herbert Rudley](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748822/) was one of those faces that you know you recognize, but you don’t always remember where. I actually remember him mostly as the psychiatrist in a couple of Season 1 “Beverly Hillbillies” episodes in which he psychoanalyzes the Clampett clan. Cousin Pearl also had the hots for him.

These were two names I was going to add to the “still alive” list that was in this forum a few days ago, but I found that they had both died last month.