Herb Vigran
Born: 1910-06-05 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Died: 1986-11-29
Known For: Acting
Biography
A well known character actor, Vigran was originally a law school graduate. He later chose to pursue acting, and performed in hundreds of radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante. He appeared frequently as various villains on the television series Adventures of Superman (1952), and made several guest appearances on television series like The Brady Bunch (1969) and I Love Lucy (1951).
Filmography
1987
- Amazon Women on the Moon as Agent (segment "Reckless Youth")
1985
- Starchaser: The Legend of Orin as Hopps (voice)
1982
- Remington Steele as Seymour Glass / Fred Melneck
- Shirt Tales as Mr. Dinkel (voice)
- I Was a Mail Order Bride as Casey
1981
- First Monday in October as Justice Ambrose Quincy
1980
- Galactica 1980 as Pop
- Getting Wasted as Mr. Kramer
1979
- Knots Landing as Cabbie
1978
- Taxi as Weldon Manning
- The Flintstones: Little Big League as Judge Shale (voice)
- Every Girl Should Have One as Ambrose
1977
- Babe as Heckler (uncredited)
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Joe Weatherby
- Hawmps! as Smitty
- The Loneliest Runner as Guard
1975
1974
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Chico and the Man
- Herbie Rides Again as Window Washer
- Benji as Lt. Ted Samuels
1973
- Charlotte's Web as Lurvy (voice)
- Chase
1972
- Emergency! as Lou
- The Streets of San Francisco as Max
- Cancel My Reservation as Roscoe Snagby
- Emergency! as Committee Chairman
1971
- Vanished as Joe Hotchkiss
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Fat
- Inside O.U.T. as Harry
- The Day of the Wolves as The Realtor
1970
- The Odd Couple as Louie
- Nanny and the Professor
1969
- Love, American Style as Bill Jenks
- The Brady Bunch
- My Dog, the Thief as Helicopter Mechanic
1968
- Adam-12 as Gus Archer
- Hawaii Five-O as Willie
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Out-Of-Town Man
- The Mod Squad as Doctor
- The Doris Day Show as Dr. Crawford
- The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Love Bug as Policeman on Bridge (uncredited)
- Blackbeard's Ghost as Danny Oly
- The Adventures of Gulliver as Glum (voice)
- Carnival Nights as Policeman
1967
- Dragnet as Paul Woods
- The Mothers-in-Law as Judge
- Good Morning World as Mr. Keith
- The Reluctant Astronaut as NASA Doctor
- The Three Faces of Stanley
1966
- Hero
- Jan & Dean: On the Run as Harry
1965
- I Dream of Jeannie as Judge Hennessey
1964
- Bewitched
- Gilligan's Island
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. as First Tour Guide
- Wendy and Me
- Send Me No Flowers as TV Announcer (uncredited)
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown as Denver Tour Spieler (uncredited)
- The Brass Bottle as Eddie
1963
- The Fugitive as Marty
- Petticoat Junction as Barney Morgan
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as George
- Arrest and Trial as Clerk
- The Dakotas
- Channing as Manny
- Temple Houston
1962
- The Virginian as Drummer
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Lucy Show as Postman
- Gypsy as Announcer at Minsky's (voice) (uncredited)
- Period of Adjustment as Christmas Caroler (uncredited)
1961
- The Dick Van Dyke Show as Bernie Quinn
- Hazel as Mickey
- Mister Ed
- Top Cat as Space Shuttle Doctor (voice)
- 87th Precinct as Detective Bartholdi
- The Errand Boy as Cigar Smoker in Elevator
- What's My Lion? as Narrator (voice)
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Bill Medwin
- The Flintstones as Cop (voice)
- My Three Sons as Caretaker
- Surfside 6 as Al
- Checkmate as Herb, Bartender
- Pete and Gladys
- Bells Are Ringing as Barney Lampwick (uncredited)
1959
- Bonanza as Card Player
- One Step Beyond as Grocery Wagon Driver
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Art (uncredited)
- Tightrope
- Go, Johnny, Go! as Bill Barnett
- Plunderers of Painted Flats as Mr. Perry
- Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) as Mr. McCloy (voice)
- Fill 'Er Up as Man
1958
- Lawman as Walt Perkins
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Bartender (uncredited)
- The Donna Reed Show as Mr. Sprague
- 77 Sunset Strip as Augie
- Peter Gunn
- The Texan as Sandy Potts
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Mr. Galt
- The Ed Wynn Show as Ernest Hinshaw
- Party Girl as Bailiff / Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
- The Gun Runners as Freddy (uncredited)
- Cry Baby Killer as John Lawson - Gambelli's Lawyer (uncredited)
- The Case Against Brooklyn as Sergeant
- The Notorious Mr. Monks as Bartender (uncredited)
1957
- Perry Mason as Charlie, Bartender
- Maverick
- Leave It to Beaver as Stanley the Barber
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Johnson
- Trackdown as Bartender (uncredited)
- M Squad as Danny
- 26 Men
- The Restless Gun as Jim Pincher
- Blondie as J. Tyler Grant
- A Hatful of Rain as Man in Elevator (uncredited)
- The Midnight Story as Charlie Cuneo
- The Helen Morgan Story as Finney (uncredited)
- The Vampire as Sgt. George Ryan
- Gunsight Ridge as R.B. Davis - Justice of the Peace
- The Edge of Innocence
- Public Pigeon No. 1 as Club Manager
- The Wayward Girl as Used-Furniture Buyer (uncredited)
1956
- Playhouse 90 as Manager
- Hey, Jeannie! as Bus driver
- World Without End as Reporter (uncredited)
- Three for Jamie Dawn as Mr. Robbins
- Our Miss Brooks as Herb
- That Certain Feeling as TV Director
- A Cry in the Night as Jensen
- You Can't Run Away from It as Detective
- These Wilder Years as Traffic Cop
- Uranium Boom as Hotel Desk Clerk
- Calling Homicide as Ray Engel
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Bob Rakle (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke as Judge Brooker
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Newsman
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Postal Clerk
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Stranger with $1000
- I Died a Thousand Times as Art (uncredited)
- Illegal as Municipal Court Bailiff (uncredited)
- It's Always Fair Weather as Nashby (uncredited)
- At Gunpoint as Matt, a Saloon Patron
- The Miracle on 34th Street as Postal Clerk
- Last of the Desperados as Coroner (bit)
1954
- Father Knows Best as George (uncredited)
- Studio 57
- December Bride as Eustace
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Innkeeper
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Professor Wirt
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as Reporter for the Globe (uncredited)
- White Christmas as Novello (uncredited)
- Hey Mulligan as Police Captain
- Dragnet as Mr. Archer
- The Long, Long Trailer as Trailer Salesman (uncredited)
- Susan Slept Here as Sergeant Sam Hanlon
- Lucky Me as Theatre Manager (uncredited)
- So You Want to Know Your Relatives as Rocco McDoakes (uncredited)
1953
- The Life Of Riley as Muley
- The Danny Thomas Show as Baseball Coach
- Topper as Fenster
- General Electric Theater
- The Band Wagon as Man on Train (uncredited)
- Never Wave at a WAC as Photographer
- So This Is Love as Club M.C.
- Let's Do It Again as Charlie Foster (uncredited)
- Dear Uncle as (voice)
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Monty Leeds
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as The Policeman
- Adventures of Superman as Cy Horton
- Cavalcade of America as Bernie
- The Ford Television Theatre as Andy Thompson
- Chevron Theatre
- Gang Busters
- O. Henry's Full House as Poker Player (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
- The Star as Roy
- The Rose Bowl Story as Rugger Grady
- The Devil and John Q as John Q.
- Oklahoma Annie as Otto
- Just for You as George - Jordan's Chauffeur (as Herbert Vigran)
- Somebody Loves Me as Lipscott
1951
- I Love Lucy as Julie
- Dragnet
- The Red Skelton Show as Man on CBS Studio Tour
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Walt Carter
- The Racket as Paradise Club Manager (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Stillwell (uncredited)
- Iron Man as Melio (uncredited)
- Bedtime for Bonzo as Lt. Daggett
- Night Into Morning as Joe - the Bartender
- Behave Yourself! as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1950
- The Jack Benny Program as Quizmaster (2nd phone caller) (voice)
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Cab Driver
- The Damned Don't Cry as Vito Maggio (uncredited)
- Side Street as News Photographer
- Hunt the Man Down as Collins' Aide (uncredited)
- Appointment with Danger as Policeman
1949
- House of Strangers as Man Next to Gino at Fight (uncredited)
- And Baby Makes Three as Woodley
- The Judge as Reporter with pipe
1948
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- All My Sons as Wertheimer (uncredited)
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven as Man in Subway (uncredited)
- The Noose Hangs High as Coat Thief (uncredited)
- Hazard as Gambler in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad as Reporter
1947
- Monsieur Verdoux as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Burning Cross as Jim Todd
1946
- Her Adventurous Night as Cop #2 (uncredited)
1943
- The Ghost Ship as Chief Engineer
- It Ain't Hay as Man in Microphone Room (uncredited)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Orderly (uncredited)
1942
- Pardon My Sarong as Wise Guy at Gas Station (uncredited)
- Night in New Orleans as Player (uncredited)
- The Payoff as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Great Gildersleeve as George, the jeweller
- Secrets of a Co-Ed as Soapy
1941
- New York Town as Barker (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Baby
- Redhead as Morocco Club bartender
- Murder by Invitation as Eddie Stats, photographer
- Reg'lar Fellers as Mr. Hall, Radio Announcer
- City of Missing Girls as Danny Mason
- Who's a Dummy?
1940
- Stranger on the Third Floor as Reporter Who Wins Cardgame (uncredited)
- It All Came True as Monks
- Hold That Woman! as Furniture Company Repossessor
- The Golden Fleecing as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Behind the News as Reporter #1 on Phone
- Cross-Country Romance as Omaha Reporter
- Two Girls on Broadway as Reporter (uncredited)
1939
- Those High Grey Walls as Orderly (uncredited)
1935
- Vagabond Lady as Edgar (uncredited)
- The Mystery Man as Fingerprint Man (uncredited)
- Skybound as Grant the Mechanic
1934
- Happy Landing as Radio Operator
- Redhead as Factory Worker (uncredited)