George Cisar
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 character actor in film and television, often in prominent Hollywood productions. He frequently played background parts such as policemen or bartenders.
In 1949, Cisar co-starred with a young Mike Wallace in the short-lived police drama Stand By for Crime. 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. Oddly, 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.[1]
Cisar portrayed character Donald Hollinger's father in That Girl, the Marlo Thomas sitcom which aired on ABC, and Cyrus Tankersley on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and its sequel Mayberry, R.F.D.
Unbilled in his first film, 1948's Call Northside 777, he was credited at the bottom of the cast list in his next feature, 1949's Johnny Holiday. His final film appearance, also near the end of the list, was as Joe the barber in the 1970 Southern racial drama, ...tick...tick...tick....
Nine years later, Cisar died in Los Angeles, at the age of 66 CLR
Filmography (90 Appearances)
The Banker Buys a Car
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The Split
Mayberry R.F.D.
Mannix
Ironside
The Monkees
Batman
The Glass Bottom Boat
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Made in Paris
Hogan's Heroes
A Very Special Favor
The Cara Williams Show
The Addams Family
A House Is Not a Home
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Viva Las Vegas
Johnny Cool
My Favorite Martian
Petticoat Junction
The Lieutenant
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Virginian
Terror At Black Falls
Married Too Young
87th Precinct
Peter Loves Mary
Surfside 6
The Andy Griffith Show
My Three Sons
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Elmer Gantry
Vice Raid
Edge of Eternity
The Detectives
The Untouchables
Dennis the Menace
Lock-Up
Bonanza
Attack of the Giant Leeches
I, Mobster
Black Saddle
Some Came Running
Bat Masterson
The Donna Reed Show
Teacher's Pet
Jet Attack
Tombstone Territory
Harbor Command
Casey Jones
Leave It to Beaver
The Walter Winchell File
Maverick
Perry Mason
Have Gun, Will Travel
Chicago Confidential
The Brothers Rico
The Buckskin Lady
The Abductors
The Giant Claw
Designing Woman
The Shadow on the Window
Don't Knock The Rock
The Opposite Sex
Nightfall
Emergency Hospital
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Gale Storm Show
State Trooper
Broken Arrow
Somebody Up There Likes Me
The Werewolf
The Harder They Fall
Inside Detroit
The Crooked Web
Teen-Age Crime Wave
Gunsmoke
5 Against the House
Cell 2455 Death Row
The Wonderful World of Disney
Lassie
Passport to Danger
Public Defender
The Life Of Riley
The Ford Television Theatre
Dragnet
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Johnny Holiday
Call Northside 777