Vic Tayback
Born: 1930-01-06 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: 1990-05-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Victor Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples in the comedy-drama film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), for which he won two consecutive Golden Globes.
Filmography
1990
- Horseplayer as George Samsa
1989
- All Dogs Go to Heaven as Carface (voice)
- Loverboy as Harry Bruckner
- Criminal Act as The Exterminator (Greengrass)
- Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers as Lou
1988
- The Underachievers as Coach
1987
- The Three Kings as Harold
1986
- Weekend Warriors as Sgt. Burdge
- Treasure Island as Silver
- George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head as The Bad Guys
1985
- MacGyver as George Henderson
- Reel Horror as Smedke (archive footage)
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Sal Domino
- Tales from the Darkside as Tippy Ryan
- Crazy like a Fox as Mo Scmidt
- Finder of Lost Loves as Thomas Velasco
- The Jesse Owens Story as Abe Saperstein
1982
- Hotel
- T. J. Hooker as Pete Benedict
- Matt Houston
- Mysterious Two as Ted Randall
1981
- Through the Magic Pyramid as Horembeb
1980
- Gridlock as Floyd 'Snake' Kraslowski
- Rage! as Tommy
- The Night the City Screamed as Morris Brustein
- This Year's Blonde as Harry Cohn
1979
- Portrait of a Stripper as Harry Parkins
- $weepstake$ as Sir Yarbrough
- Time Express
1978
- Vega$
- The Cheap Detective as Lieutenant DiMaggio
- Getting Married as Burt Carboni
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries
- The Case of the Baltimore Girls as Capt. Barney Marcus
1977
- The Love Boat as Harry Stewart
- The Choirboys as Zoony
- CHiPs
- Little Ladies of the Night as Finch
1976
- Alice as Mel Sharples
- Dark Victory as Archie
- The Big Bus as Goldie
- No Deposit, No Return as Big Joe Adamo
- Mansion of the Doomed as Detective Simon
- The Shaggy D.A. as Eddie Roschak
- The Practice
- Special Delivery as Wyatt
1975
- Barney Miller as Mr. Stavochek
- Switch as Ralph Kabelka
- Bronk
- Lepke as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
- Report to the Commissioner as Lt. Seidensticker
- The Black Bird as Warren Finley, Police Lieutenant
- Khan!
- On the Rocks
1974
- The Gambler as One
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as Mario Pinski
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Mel
1973
- Police Story
- Papillon as Sergeant
- Emperor of the North as Yardman
- The Blue Knight as Neil Grogan
- The Don Is Dead as Ralph Negri
- Partners in Crime
- The Alpha Caper as Policeman
- Griff
- The Blue Knight as Neil Grogan
- Honor Thy Father as Don A. Tirello
- Maxie as Smedke
1972
1971
- Columbo as Sam Franklin
- Cannon
- All in the Family as Joe Tucker
- Blood and Lace as Calvin Carruthers
- They Call It Murder as Jeff Poland
1970
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- McCloud
- The Partridge Family as Ingram
- The Silent Force as Capt. Al Grant
1969
- Medical Center
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Bernie
- The Bill Cosby Show as Calvin
- My World and Welcome to It
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Parmel
- Bullitt as Pete Ross
- Land of the Giants as Hood
- Lancer
- The Mod Squad
- The Outsider
1966
- Star Trek as Jojo Krako
- Mission: Impossible as Egan's Goon
- Felony Squad
- The Monkees as George
- That Girl
- Family Affair
- Gambit as Plainclothes Officer at TWA Counter (uncredited)
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Detective Merchant (uncredited)
- Love on a Rooftop
- Occasional Wife
1965
- Get Smart
- I Dream of Jeannie as Turhan
- The F.B.I. as Ed Larch
- F Troop
1964
- Bewitched as Mayor's Chauffeur
- Daniel Boone as American Soldier
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Sergeant
1963
- Love with the Proper Stranger as Cye (uncredited)
1962
- Surftide 77 as Arms Cooper
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Five Minutes to Live as Fred Dorella
1959
- Rawhide as Monte
- Gangster Story as Norm (uncredited)
- T-Bird Gang as Policeman
1958
- The Power of the Resurrection as Simon the Canaanite
1955
- Gunsmoke as Gaines
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Man Talking to Cab Driver