Sid Melton

Sid Melton Headshot

Actress

Birth Name: Sidney Meltzer

Birth Date: May 22, 1917

Death Date: November 2, 2011

Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York

Actor Sid Melton was best known for playing hapless carpenter Alf Monroe on the bucolic sitcom "Green Acres." From the show's premiere in 1965, Alf delighted audiences, endlessly arguing with his curiously named sister, Ralph (Mary Grace Canfield), who was also his partner in the carpentry trade. Born in Brooklyn in 1920, Melton made his first on-screen appearances in the early 1940s, often in bit roles where he served as comic relief.

Into the 1950s, Melton increasingly found work on TV, appearing on shows like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Dragnet," and "The Andy Griffith Show." In 1959, he nabbed a continuing role as Charley Halper on "Make Room For Daddy," which was later re-titled "The Danny Thomas Show." Melton's character was the owner of the Copa Club, where Thomas' crooner character often sang. After Melton left "Green Acres" in 1969, he re-joined Danny Thomas in 1970's short-lived "Make Room For Granddaddy." He continued to work on sitcoms throughout the 1980s, and in 1990, the actor returned to the town of Hooterville for the TV movie "Return to Green Acres."

Melton's brother is screenwriter Lewis Meltzer ("The Man with the Golden Arm"). Melton died in 2011 at his home in Burbank, California, at the age of 94.

Credits

Brotherly Love

Guest Star
Series
1995
86%

Nurses

Guest Star
Show
1991

Return to Green AcresStream

Actor
Alf Monroe
Movie
1990

The Golden GirlsStream

Guest Star
Salvadore Petrillo
Series
1985

HunterStream

Guest Star
Mailbox Service Owner
Series
1984

The Fall GuyStream

Guest Star
Series
1981

Game Show Models

Actor
Marvin Schmit
Movie
1977

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

Actor
Manny
Movie
1975

Rhoda

Guest Star
Series
1974

The Day the Earth Moved

Actor
Chief
Movie
1974

Hit!

Actor
Herman
Movie
1973

Lady Sings the Blues

Actor
Jerry
Movie
1972
70%

Billie Holiday chante le blues

Actor
Movie
1972

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Guest Star
Series
1971

Love, American Style

Actor
Andy
Series
1969

Mod Squad

Guest Star
Mr. Frank
Series
1968

The Doris Day ShowStream

Guest Star
Series
1968

That GirlStream

Guest Star
Series
1966

DaktariStream

Guest Star
Series
1966

I Dream of JeannieStream

Guest Star
Doug Reynolds
Series
1965

Green AcresStream

Actor
Alf Monroe
Series
1965

Green AcresStream

Guest Star
Alf Monroe
Series
1965

Bad Girls Do Cry

Director
Movie
1965

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.Stream

Guest Star
Friendly Freddy
Series
1964

The MunstersStream

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Diamond Jim
Series
1964
83%

Petticoat JunctionStream

Guest Star
Series
1963

The Dick Van Dyke ShowStream

Guest Star
Bert Monker
Series
1961

The Joey Bishop ShowStream

Guest Star
Charlie Halper
Series
1961

The Andy Griffith ShowStream

Guest Star
Pat Michaels
Series
1960

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

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Little Augie (uncredited)
Movie
1960

The Atomic Submarine

Actor
Yeoman Chester Tuttle
Movie
1959

The Thin Man

Guest Star
Shorty
Show
1957

Bachelor Father

Guest Star
Series
1957

The Silent Service

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Utz
Show
1957

Alfred Hitchcock PresentsStream

Actor
Cab Driver
Series
1955

It's Always Jan

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Harry Cooper
Show
1955

Adventures of SupermanStream

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Series
1952

Sky High

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Herbert Pumice/Muscrat Maxie McClure
Movie
1952

The Lemon Drop KidStream

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Little Louie
Movie
1951

The Steel HelmetStream

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Joe
Movie
1951
100%

Three Desperate Men

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Connors
Movie
1951

The Lost Continent

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Sgt. Willie Tatlow
Movie
1951

Leave It to the Marines

Actor
Gerald Sylvester Meek
Movie
1951

Fingerprints Don't Lie

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Hypo Dorton
Movie
1951

Mask of the Dragon

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Manchu Murphy
Movie
1951

The Return of Jesse James

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Saloon Waiter
Movie
1950

Hijacked

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"Killer"
Movie
1950

Radar Secret Service

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Pill Box
Movie
1950

Stop That Cab

Actor
Sidney Gugenheimer
Movie
1950

Treasure of Monte Cristo

Actor
Tyson
Movie
1949

Close-Up

Actor
Stanislaus Kranobowsky
Movie
1948

Girls in Chains

Actor
Pinkhead
Movie
1943