Character Actor Typecasting
Posted in Television on 15. Feb, 2010
Sometimes, as you’re showing your kids classic TV shows, you realize certain character actors were just meant to play certain roles. I made two of those discoveries recently. Before he was Floyd the Barber, Howard McNear played Andy the Barber in an episode of Leave it to Beaver. He gave Wally a shave to help him save face in front of his friends during an episode called “The Shave.”
And before he was Little House on the Prairie’s Reverend Alden, Dabbs Greer was the minister who married Mike and Carol Brady. His contribution to the episode was looking heavenward and laughing bemusedly as Mike and Carol were covered in wedding cake. It was an acting master-stroke.
