Frank Aletter(1926-2009)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
For someone who goes only to movie theaters, Frank Aletter is a total
stranger. It is true that the actor appeared in no more than a handful
of theatrical films (Gerhart in
Mister Roberts (1955), a
commanding officer in
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Leigh
Jensen in
Private School (1983)...). But for
a TV fan things are just the opposite, for Aletter was cast in NEARLY
ALL the TV series, films, sitcoms and specials shot between 1955 and
1991! A sample of titles just give you an idea of Frank Aletter's
prolific output on the small screen: Bringing Up Buddy (1960), Perry Mason (1957), The Cara Williams Show (1964), Lassie (1954), Mannix (1967), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Insight (1960), Kojak (1973), Cannon (1971), Hunter (1976), "Super Jaimie"... In
his first life, Frank Aletter had been a regular on Broadway appearing
in plays and musicals like "Bells Are Ringing", "Time Limit", "Wish You
Were Here" and of course "Mister Roberts", which opened to him the doors of
filmed fiction.
