Frank Aletter

Acting

Born January 14, 1926, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

• Matlock — Judge David Spinner
• The Golden Girls — Harry
• Murder, She Wrote — Wendell Joyner
• Automan — James Dowling
• 1983Private School — Mr. Leigh-Jensen
• Hotel — Bill Korman
• T. J. Hooker — Robert Huntman
• Falcon Crest — Mr. Baker
• Simon & Simon
• 1981The Star Maker — Harvey Denver
• 1980Farewell to the Planet of the Apes — Leuric
• Hello, Larry
• The Facts of Life
• Fantasy Island — Lt. Draper
• ABC Weekend Specials
• CHiPs
• Lou Grant
• The Love Boat — Arnold James
• Three's Company — Tom Latham
• Alice
• Quincy, M.E. — Hugh Boudreau, Hugh Casey
• The Bionic Woman
• What's Happening!! — Daniel Turner
• S.W.A.T.
• Switch — Fred Willens, Harry Gilden
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker
• Petrocelli — Lee Larker
• Planet of the Apes — Leuric
• Police Woman — Tony Scilio
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Borden
• Kojak — Capt. Nolan
• Banyon — John Garvey
• Emergency! — Roger Mundell
• 1972Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession — Gen. Gene Cameron
• M*A*S*H — Major Stoner
• Maude — George Snyder
• 1972Now You See Him, Now You Don't — TV Announcer
• 1972Run, Cougar, Run — Sam Davis
• Temperatures Rising — Dr. Larkin
• All in the Family — Mr. Prescott
• Cannon
• Columbo — Ernie Garrison
• Funny Face
• Nancy — Tom Daily
• Nanny and the Professor
• 1970Tora! Tora! Tora! — Lt. Commander Thomas
• Love, American Style — Arthur
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Avery Waters
• My World and Welcome to It
• Adam-12 — Harry Morrison
• Danger Island — Prof. Irwin Hayden
• The Doris Day Show — Colonel Andy Carson
• The Mod Squad — Russ Hayman
• The Name of the Game — Bruks Meecham
• Ironside — Frank Bolan
• Mannix — Lorne Marshall
• It's About Time — Mac
• The F.B.I. — Jim, Warren Michaels
• 12 O'Clock High
• 1964A Tiger Walks — Riley
• The Cara Williams Show — Frank Bridges
• Petticoat Junction — David Benton
• The Fugitive — Burton Green
• The Great Adventure — James Welton
• Vacation Playhouse — Lester Belstrip
• The Lucy Show — Sam Eastman
• Ben Casey
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Jerry Helvick
• Target: The Corruptors!
• Bringing Up Buddy — Buddy Flower
• The Twilight Zone — William Connacher
• Perry Mason — Harry Collins, Tommy Towne
• 1955Mister Roberts — Gerhart
• Lassie — Colonel Gene Cameron, Col. Gene Cameron
• General Electric Theater — Bob
• Omnibus — Skiddy
• Studio One — Danny
• Kraft Television Theatre — Stevens