Charles Aidman

Charles Leonard Aidman (January 21, 1925 – November 7, 1993) was an American stage, film and television actor.

Aidman was born in Frankfort, Indiana,^[1] the son of George E. and Etta (Kwitny) Aidman. Aidman graduated from Frankfort High School and attended DePauw University prior to serving in the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, he returned to his home state and graduated from Indiana University.^[2]

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Aidman guest-starred on NBC's The Virginian in the episode "The Devil's Children" and twice on the NBC Western series The Californians. He also appeared twice on Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He portrayed a bounty hunter on ABC's Western series Black Saddle. He was cast in CBS's fantasy drama The Twilight Zone in the episodes "And When the Sky Was Opened" and "Little Girl Lost". He also guest-starred on other Western series, including the ABC/Warner Bros. series Colt .45; ABC's The Rebel; CBS's Gunsmoke (in 5 episodes); NBC's Riverboat (as Frank Paxton in the episode "The Fight at New Canal"); NBC's The Americans; CBS's Trackdown (as Len Starbuck in "The Samaritan"); and CBS's Johnny Ringo (as Jeffrey Blake in "The Stranger").

Aidman guest-starred on the NBC children's Western

In 1961, in the Peter Gunn episode "Witness in the Window", Aidman hires Peter Gunn to investigate a woman who is blackmailing him over alleged sexual improprieties that he denies. In the NBC Western series The Tall Man, in the episode "Shadow of the Past", Aidman was cast as Ben Wiley, the father of Sue Wiley, the latest girlfriend of Billy the Kid.

In 1962 and 1963, he made two appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Also in 1963, Aidman was cast as George Ellsworth, an official with the United States Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, in the three-part episode "Security Risk" of the CBS anthology series GE True. He also played a sex-education teacher in the episode of Slattery's People "Do the Ignorant Sleep in Pure White Sheets"? Also in 1963, Aidman adapted Spoon River Anthology by poet Edgar Lee Masters into a theater production. It is a production that is still performed.^[3]

In 1965, he played a teacher in a sixth-season episode of The Andy Griffith Show. He appeared on the NBC Western series The Road West in its 1966 episode "The Lean Years". That same year, Aidman played a scientist who turns into a werewolf in an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He also guest-starred on CBS's The Wild Wild West during the series's fourth season in a recurring role as Jeremy Pike, one of Jim West's substitute sidekicks.^[4] In 1968, he appeared in ABC's The Invaders as research scientist Julian Reed, in the episode "The Pit". In 1970, Aidman appeared in Hawaii Five-O as Dr. Royce.

In 1974, he introduced the character Louis Willis (later known as Tom Willis), father-in-law-to-be of

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