William Schallert
William Joseph Schallert (6 July 1922 – 8 May 2016) was an American character actor who appeared in many films and television series and has nearly 400 credits on IMDb stretching from 1947 to 2014, was probably best known as Martin Lane on The Patty Duke Show. Schallert's other appearances include Gunsmoke, The Partridge Family, Steve Canyon, Get Smart, Perry Mason, and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. In addition to his onscreen performances, Schallert did voiceover work for numerous television and radio commercials, among these the narrator for Oscar Mayer commericals, and a recurring role as "Milton the Toaster" in Kellog's Pop-Tarts commercials.
Schallert, however, often said that the character for which he was most recognized was Federation Undersecretary of Agriultural Affairs Nilz Baris, in the classic December 1967 Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles".
Schallert continued to work steadily as an actor in later life, appearing in a 2008 episode of How I Met Your Mother, the HBO television movie Recount (2008) as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, the HBO series True Blood and his distinctive voice brought him work for commercial and animation voiceovers. Appearances in 2009 included a guest role on Desperate Housewives on March 15, in which he played the role of a small newspaper editor; he also appeared in an episode of According to Jim. More recently, he appeared in the January 21, 2010 pilot episode of The Deep End on ABC as a retiring CEO with Alzheimer's Disease. He also made an appearance on Medium on the February 5, 2010 episode and a cameo on the June 26, 2011 season premiere of True Blood as the Mayor of Bon Temps. He played Max Devore in the A&E adaptation of Bag of Bones.
In 2010, Schallert made a series of public service announcement videos with Patty Duke and other castmates from The Patty Duke Show for the Social Security Administration. His last television appearance came in 2014 on an episode of the sitcom 2 Broke Girls.
Schallert died at his home in Pacific Palisades at the age of 93, six weeks after the detah of his on-screen daughter. No cause of death was announced, but he was known to be suffering from peripheral neuropathy, which effectively restricted him to a wheelchair.
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