Philip Bruns
Born: 1931-05-02 in Pipestone, Minnesota, USA
Died: 2012-02-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
Philip Bruns (May 2, 1931 – February 8, 2012) was an American television and movie actor and writer. He portrayed George Shumway, the father of Mary Hartman on the 1970s comedic series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and Morty Seinfeld, the father of Jerry Seinfeld, in the 1990 second episode of Seinfeld.
Filmography
1999
- Inferno as Old Man Buyer
1998
- Johnny Skidmarks as Old Coot
1997
- Just Shoot Me! as Professor Gladstone
1996
- Profiler as Mr. Poole
- Ed as Clarence
- The Trigger Effect as Mr. Schaefer
1995
- Baywatch Nights as Nicky Pine
- Digital Man as Bob
1994
- Pentathlon as Vic
1993
- Love Bites as Vinnie Helsting
1992
- The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them as Irv Crown
1990
1989
- Seinfeld as Morty Seinfeld
1988
- Return of the Living Dead Part II as Doc Mandel
1987
- A Year in the Life as Bob McCrone
1986
- The Christmas Star as Lucky
- All is Forgiven as George Aldrich
- Betrayed by Innocence as Judge Mendola
1985
- The Twilight Zone as Bartender (segment 'Kentucky Rye')
- Amazing Stories as Mr. Beasley
1984
- Night Court as Mr. Hubble
- Airwolf as Mitch - Director
- Airwolf: The Movie as Mitch, the Director
1983
- Flashdance as Frank Szabo
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Marvin Kroll
- Cagney & Lacey as Daglee
- My Favorite Year as Fed. Marshal Holt / Featured Player
1980
- The Stunt Man as Ace
- The Gold Bug as Tattoo
1979
- Trapper John, M.D.
- Archie Bunker's Place
- Aunt Mary as Det. LaMonica
1978
- Corvette Summer as Gil
1977
- How the West Was Won as Doc
- The Chopped Liver Brothers as Mr. Ruth
1976
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as George Shumway
- Delvecchio as Ben
- Nickelodeon as Duncan
1975
- Barney Miller as Harry Cranston
- Target Risk as Marty
- Bronk as Gunther
- Isis as Jack Evans
- Rock-a-Die Baby as Lt. John Anderson
- Last Hours Before Morning as Max
- Flash and the Firecat as Mr. Walley
- The Kansas City Massacre as Capt. Jackson
- The Great Waldo Pepper as Dilhoefer
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Randolph
- Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
- The Family Kovack as Jo-Jo Linsen
- Harry and Tonto as Burt Coombes
- Sons and Daughters
1973
- Kojak as Mr. Seymour
- Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside as Brack
1972
- M*A*S*H
- Sanford and Son as Calvin
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco as Pete
- Night of the Dark Full Moon as Wilfred Butler (1929)
1971
- Columbo as Gene Stafford
- Taking Off as Policeman
- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight as Gallagher
1970
- Jenny as Fred Callahan
- The Out-of-Towners as Officer Meyers
1969
- Midnight Cowboy as Man in TV Montage (uncredited)
- Let Me Hear You Whisper as Dan
1968
- Here's Lucy as Tompkins
- The Outcasts
- The Swimmer as Biswangers' Pool Party Guest (uncredited)
1967
1966
- The Rat Patrol as General Koenig, 'the Butcher'
1965
- The Wild Wild West
- A Thousand Clowns as The Man in the Restaurant
1962
- Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine as Sketch Actor
1961
- The Defenders as District Attorney
1960
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Det. LaMonica