Sid Melton
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Sid Melton, (Born Sidney Meltzer on May 23, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor probably best known for his roles as incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the sitcom Green Acres and as Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, in Make Room for Daddy and its spin-offs.
He had a long movie career before that. In 1941 Melton was cast as "Fingers" in The Shadow of the Thin Man. Other movies included On the Town, The Geisha Boy and Blondie Goes to College.
His television credits include The Golden Girls (as Sophia's husband, Salvadore, in dream sequences), Captain Midnight(as Icabod Mudd), Dragnet and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. He also had a guest role in an episode of Adventures of Superman called The Deadly Rock.
In 2005, he attended Eddie Albert's funeral along with Green Acres's co-stars Mary Grace Canfield and Frank Cady.
