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Frank Aletter

Highest Rated: 93% Mister Roberts (1955)

Lowest Rated: 57% Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Birthday: Jan 14, 1926

Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA

Accomplished actor Frank Aletter was elected the 11th vice president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1987. His career began on Broadway in the '50s, where he sang in the musicals "Bells Are Ringing" and "Wish You Were Here." He made his TV debut shortly thereafter, and earned a starring role in the single-season sitcom "Bringing Up Buddy," where he played a stockbroker living in Queens with his overbearing aunts. In 1958, Aletter wed former Miss America pageant-winner Lee Meriwether, who appeared on an episode of "Buddy" as a comely nurse. Aletter was cast as a regular on another short-lived series, "The Cara Williams Show," in 1964. He appeared as spouse of the eponymous actress, and the pair struggled to keep their marriage quiet at a company that forbade interoffice romance. Seemingly cursed to star in interesting but ill-fated series, Aletter's next endeavor was the prehistoric sitcom "It's About Time," where he played an astronaut thrust into the past, only to return to '60s society with cavemen in tow. Aletter is less known for his contributions to film, but he memorably portrayed Lieutenant Commander Francis J. Thomas in the Oscar-winning 1970 Pearl Harbor docudrama, "Tora! Tora! Tora!." He retired in 1991, having fathered two would-be actresses: Kyle and Lesley Aletter. Aletter died of lung cancer at age 83.

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Highest rated movies

93% 85% Mister Roberts
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57% 81% Tora! Tora! Tora!
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38% Private School
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Run, Cougar, Run
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 38% Private School Mr. Leigh-Jensen (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Run, Cougar, Run Sam Davis (Character) - 1972
57% 81% Tora! Tora! Tora! Lt. Cmdr. Francis J. Thomas (Character) - 1970
93% 85% Mister Roberts Gerhart (Character) - 1955

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet 1st & Ten Pete (Guest Star) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matlock Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet 94% The Golden Girls Harry (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fall Guy Unknown (Guest Star) 1982 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Unknown (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Wendell Joyner (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simon & Simon Harker Anderson (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Facts of Life Mr. Smith (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alice Unknown (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet CHiPs Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet 95% Three's Company Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hello, Larry Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fantasy Island Unknown (Guest Star) 1978-1979
No Score Yet 80% Columbo Dr. Ernie Garrison (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Woman Willy Galloway (Guest Star) 1975-1976 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bionic Woman Spencer (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet 85% All in the Family Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's Happening!! Unknown (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Quest Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cannon Jess Whitney (Guest Star) 1971 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Petrocelli Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marcus Welby, M.D. Avery Waters (Guest Star) 1973-1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Capt. Nolan (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Professor O'Neill (Guest Star) 1967 1975
100% 84% Kolchak: The Night Stalker Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Six Million Dollar Man Borden (Guest Star) 1975
55% 89% Planet of the Apes Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet 87% M*A*S*H Maj. Stoner (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Maude Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lassie Colonel Gene Cameron (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mod Squad Russ Hayman (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Petticoat Junction Unknown (Guest Star) 1966 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Doris Day Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet It's About Time Mac (Character) 1966-1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet 12 O'Clock High Unknown (Guest Star) 1965-1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Tom Farnsworth (Guest Star) 1963 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Burton Green (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Grindl Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason Harry Collins (Guest Star) 1963-1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Favorite Martian Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Colonel William Connacher (Character) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hazel Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucy Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lloyd Bridges Show McAfee (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour Tommy Sanford (Character) 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star)