George Cisar (actor)

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George Cisar
Cisar in Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
Born(1912-07-28)July 28, 1912
Cicero, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJune 13, 1979(1979-06-13) (aged 66)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1948–1970

George Cisar (July 28, 1912 – June 13, 1979) was an American actor who performed in more than one hundred roles in two decades as a

Hollywood
productions. He frequently played background parts such as policemen or bartenders.

Career

Colleen Miller, George Cisar and James Best in Hot Summer Night (1957)

In 1949, Cisar co-starred with a young Mike Wallace in the short-lived police drama Stand By for Crime.[1] In 1957 he appeared on

Highway Patrol
as a car salesman.

Among Cisar's more frequent roles was from 1960 to 1963 as Sgt. Theodore Mooney in thirty-one episodes of CBS's Dennis the Menace.[1]: 252  Series co-star Gale Gordon took the name "Theodore Mooney" and added the middle initial "J." for his character, Theodore J. Mooney, a tough-minded banker on Lucille Ball's second sitcom, The Lucy Show.[2] Cisar also appeared as the postman in a 1962 episode of Leave It to Beaver (S6E9 - "Beaver Joins a Record Club").

Cisar appeared in a 1965 episode of

Mayberry, R.F.D.

Unbilled in his first film, 1948's

...tick...tick...tick...
.

Nine years later, Cisar died in Los Angeles, at the age of 66.[3]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1-5246-2071-4
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4
    .

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