Frank Aletter
Frank George Aletter (January 14, 1926 – May 13, 2009) was an American actor. For someone who goes only to movie theaters, Frank Aletter is a total stranger. It is true that the actor appeared in no more than a handful of theatrical films (Gerhart in Mister Roberts (1955), a commanding officer in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Leigh Jensen in Private School (1983)...). But for a TV fan things are just the opposite, for Aletter was cast in NEARLY ALL the TV series, films, sitcoms and specials shot between 1955 and 1991! A sample of titles just give you an idea of Frank Aletter's prolific output on the small screen: Bringing Up Buddy (1960), Perry Mason (1957), The Cara Williams Show (1964), Lassie (1954), Mannix (1967), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Insight (1960), Kojak (1973), Cannon (1971), Hunter (1976), "Super Jaimie"... In his first life, Frank Aletter had been a regular on Broadway appearing in plays and musicals like "Bells Are Ringing", "Time Limit", "Wish You Were Here" and of course "Mister Roberts", which opened to him the doors of filmed fiction.
Acting
TV
The Twilight Zone
as William Connacher
1959
TV
Columbo
as Ernie Garrison
1971
TV
M*A*S*H
as Major Stoner
1972
Movie
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Lt. Commander Thomas
1970
TV
Murder, She Wrote
as Wendell Joyner
1984
TV
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Borden
1974
TV
The Golden Girls
as Harry
1985
TV
The Bionic Woman
1976
Movie
Private School
as Mr. Leigh-Jensen
1983
TV
The Love Boat
as Arnold James
1977
TV
Automan
as James Dowling
1983
TV
Three's Company
as Tom Latham
1977
Movie
Mister Roberts
as Gerhart
1955
TV
All in the Family
as Mr. Prescott
1971
TV
CHiPs
1977
TV
Kojak
as Capt. Nolan
1973
TV
Perry Mason
as Harry Collins
1957
TV
Perry Mason
as Tommy Towne
1957
TV
Matlock
as Judge David Spinner
1986
TV
Fantasy Island
as Lt. Draper
1978
TV
Quincy, M.E.
1976
TV
Quincy, M.E.
as Hugh Boudreau
1976
TV
Planet of the Apes
as Leuric
1974
TV
The Facts of Life
1979