TIP O' THE HAT SQUAD (DANA ELCAR)

The character actor doesn't ask for much; just the chance for a really juicy role to play, and as many of those as he can get. They know they're never going to get the fame, money, and recognition given to the stars whom they support with their acting. But I'm sure it would be nice for them if someone could do more than just remember their face and say, "Hey! It's that guy from .....!"

So it's a real shame when such a solid, dependable performer like Dana Elcar should pass away at the age of 77 (and after years of suffering from blindness due to glaucoma), and have the headline of his obituary in the New York Daily News read:

"DANA ECLAR".

The man deserved better. And with thanks to the IMDb, I'd like to point out many of the reasons why he was a big asset to the population of Toobworld.....

TV SERIES
"MacGyver" (1985) TV Series .... Pete Thornton (1986-1992)
"Centennial" (1978) (mini) TV Series .... Judge Hart
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" (1976) TV Series .... Col. Thomas Lard (1976-1978)
"Baretta" (1975) TV Series .... Lt. Shiller (1975)
"Dark Shadows" (1966) TV Series .... Sheriff George Patterson #1 (1966-1967)
"The Edge of Night" (1956) TV Series .... Clinton Wheeler (1964-1965)
"The Guiding Light" (1952) TV Series .... Dist. Atty. Andrew Murray (1962)
"A Time to Live" (1954) TV Series .... Dr. Clay

TV GUEST APPEARANCES
"ER" playing "Manny Kendovich" in episode: "Damage Is Done" (episode # 8.13) 31 January 2002
"The Magic School Bus" playing "Mr. Terese" (voice) in episode: "Going Batty" (episode # 2.4) 30 September 1995
"Law & Order" playing "Robert Cook" in episode: "Virus" (episode # 3.19) 21 April 1993
"Matlock" playing "Arthur Hughes" in episode: "The Court Martial: Part 2" (episode # 1.19) 24 February 1987 and "The Court Martial: Part 1" (episode # 1.18) 17 February 1987
"Trapper John, M.D." playing "Jared Vennemar" in episode: "Billboard Barney" (episode # 7.9) 29 December 1985
"MacGyver" playing "Andy Colson" in episode: "MacGyver" (episode # 1.0) 29 September 1985
"The A-Team" playing "Judge Mordente" in episode: "Judgement Day: Part 2" (episode # 4.2) 24 September 1985 and "Judgement Day: Part 1" (episode # 4.1) 24 September 1985
"Riptide" playing "Harry Silverman" in episode: "Arrivederci, Baby" (episode # 2.21) 7 May 1985
"Hill Street Blues" playing "Lt. Mel Taber" in episode: "Washington Deceased" (episode # 5.16) 7 February 1985
"Scarecrow and Mrs. King" playing "Mitch Larner" in episode: "Spiderweb" (episode # 2.13) 14 January 1985
"The A-Team" playing "George Olson" in episode: "Double Heat" (episode # 3.6) 23 October 1984
"The Fall Guy" playing "Dean Hackett" in episode: "Terror U." (episode # 4.5) 17 October 1984
"The Paper Chase" playing "James Hart's Father" (archive footage) in episode: "Hart Goes Home" (episode # 2.13) 6 May 1984
"Matt Houston" playing "Mayor Akers" in episode: "Death Match" (episode # 2.18) 24 February 1984
"Hardcastle and McCormick" playing "Frank Cardigan" in episode: "The Georgia Street Motors" (episode # 1.18) 5 February 1984
"Hart to Hart" playing "Admiral Springfield" in episode: "Pandora Has Wings" (episode # 5.4) 25 October 1983
"Knight Rider" playing "Strock" in episode: "Merchants of Death" (episode # 2.4) 16 October 1983
"Trapper John, M.D." playing "Howard Bowman" in episode: "Past Imperfect" (episode # 4.18) 20 February 1983
"Voyagers!" playing "Colonel Knox" in episode: "Sneak Attack" (episode # 1.14) 20 February 1983
"Newhart" playing "Sam Ebersol" in episode: "The Visitors" (episode # 1.13) 17 January 1983
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" playing "Judge Carlson" in episode: "The Man in the White Hat" (episode # 1.2) 22 September 1982
"Herbie, the Love Bug" playing "Warden" in episode: "Calling Doctor Herbie" (episode # 1.5) 14 April 1982
"Falcon Crest" playing "Carl Reed" in episodes:
"Heir Apparent" (episode # 1.15) 19 March 1982
"The Candidate" (episode # 1.13) 26 February 1982
"The Tangled Vines" (episode # 1.3) 18 December 1981
"Benson" playing "Chapman" in episode: "Benson's Appointment" (episode # 3.1) 6 November 1981
"Flamingo Road" in episode: "The Arrangement" (episode # 2.1) 3 November 1981
"Galactica 1980" playing "Steadman" in episode: "Space Croppers" (episode # 1.9) 27 April 1980
"Eight Is Enough" playing "Ben" in episode: "Roll Over Bradford" (episode # 4.25) 1980
"B.J. and the Bear" playing "Spencer" in episode: "Silent Night, Unholy Night" (episode # 2.12) 15 December 1979
"One Day at a Time" playing "Captain" in episode: "A Little Larceny" (episode # 5.9) 2 December 1979
"The Incredible Hulk" playing "Sheriff Harris" in episode: "Escape From Los Santos" (episode # 2.11) 1 December 1978
"Police Story" playing "Lieutenant Garippo" in episode: "Trial Board" (episode # 4.12) 4 January 1977
"The Six Million Dollar Man" playing "Larry Stover" in episode: "Nightmare in the Sky" (episode # 4.2) 26 September 1976
"Cannon" playing "John Brinegar" in episode: "The Star" (episode # 5.14) 10 December 1975
"The Rockford Files" playing "Sheriff Mitchell" in episode: "The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company" (episode # 2.6) 17 October 1975
"Petrocelli" playing "Daley" in episode: "Edge of Evil" (episode # 1.4) 2 October 1974
"The F.B.I." in episode: "Fatal Reunion" (episode # 9.7) 4 November 1973
"The Waltons" playing "George Porter" in episode: "The Prize" (episode # 2.7) 25 October 1973
"Kung Fu" playing "Noah Jones" in episode: "The Assassin" (episode # 2.2) 4 October 1973
"Hawkins" playing "Dr. Aronson" in episode: "Death and the Maiden" (episode # 1.1) 13 March 1973
"Kung Fu" playing "Pritikin" in episode: "Nine Lives" (episode # 1.7) 15 February 1973
"The Partridge Family" playing "Felcher" in episode: "Trial of Partridge One" (episode # 3.16) 19 January 1973
"Mannix" playing "Skip Seldon" in episode: "A Matter of Principle" (episode # 6.17) 14 January 1973
"Alias Smith and Jones" playing "Sam Haney" in episode: "Only Three to a Bed" (episode # 3.12) 13 January 1973
"Bonanza" playing "Mr. Merrick" in episode: "The Twenty-Sixth Grave" (episode # 14.7) 31 October 1972
"Marcus Welby, M.D." in episode: "Don and Denise" (episode # 4.8) 31 October 1972
"Cannon" playing "Mr. Ryan" in episode: "A Long Way Down" (episode # 2.7) 25 October 1972
"Marcus Welby, M.D." in episode: "We'll Walk Out of Here Together" (episode # 4.3) 26 September 1972
"The Sixth Sense" playing "Edward Winslow" in episode: "Witch, Witch, Burning Bright" (episode # 1.8) 11 March 1972
"Cannon" playing "Lieutenant" in episode: "Cain's Mark" (episode # 1.23) 7 March 1972
"The F.B.I." in episode: "Superstition Rock" (episode # 7.11) 28 November 1971
"Longstreet" in episode: "The Shape of Nightmares" (episode # 1.7) 28 October 1971
"Love, American Style" in episode: "Love and the Naked Stranger" (episode # 3.6d) 22 October 1971
"The Bold Ones: The Lawyers" playing "Gale" in episode: "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (episode # 3.1) 26 September 1971
"Alias Smith and Jones" playing "Benjamin T. Bowers" in episode: "Stagecoach Seven" (episode # 1.9) 11 March 1971
"Ironside" in episode: "Killing at the Track" (episode # 4.18) 4 February 1971
"Marcus Welby, M.D." in episode: "A Woman's Place" (episode # 2.17) 2 February 1971
"The F.B.I." playing "Ed Garth" in episode: "The Fatal Connection" (episode # 6.19) 31 January 1971
"The Bold Ones: The Senator" playing "Collie Ford" in episode: "Some Day, They'll Elect a President" (episode # 1.6) 17 January 1971
"Medical Center" playing "General Montague" in episode: "Man at Bay" (episode # 2.14) 16 December 1970
"Gunsmoke" playing "Pennigrath" in episode: "Snow Train: Part 2" (episode # 16.7) 26 October 1970 and "Snow Train: Part 1" (episode # 16.6) 19 October 1970
"Storefront Lawyers" in episode: "The Electric Kid" (episode # 1.4) 7 October 1970
"Mission: Impossible" playing "C.W. Cameron" in episode: "Flip Side" (episode # 5.2) 29 September 1970
"Hawaii Five-O" playing "Dr. Benjamin" in episode: "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu: Part 2" (episode # 2.24) 4 March 1970 and "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu: Part 1" (episode # 2.23) 25 February 1970
"Mannix" playing "Tom Coleman/Al Beckworth/Darrell Andrews/Charles Vincent Addison" in episode: "The Search for Darrell Andrews" (episode # 3.22) 28 February 1970
"Get Smart" playing "Kruger" in episode: "And Baby Makes Four: Part 2" (episode # 5.8) 14 November 1969 and "And Baby Makes Four: Part 1" (episode # 5.7) 7 November 1969
"The Bold Ones: The Lawyers" playing "District Attorney Shannon" in episode: "The Crowd Pleasers" (episode # 1.3) 2 November 1969
"The Virginian" playing "Bennett Poole" in episode: "The Power Seekers" (episode # 8.4) 8 October 1969
"Medical Center" playing "Mazur" in episode: "The Last 10 Yards" (episode # 1.1) 24 September 1969
"Bonanza" playing "Caleb Milton" in episode: "Speak No Evil" (episode # 10.28) 20 April 1969
"The F.B.I." playing "Howard Swift" in episode: "The Young Warriors" (episode # 4.24) 9 March 1969
"Mannix" playing "Sheriff Conrad Bucola" in episode: "Fear I to Fall" (episode # 2.12) 21 December 1968
"The Outsider" playing "Fred Oliver" in episode: "The Twenty Thousand Dollar Carrot" (episode # 1.8) 13 November 1968
"Judd for the Defense" playing "Champion" in episode: "Weep the Hunter Home" (episode # 2.7) 8 November 1968
"The Invaders" playing "Sheriff Halloway" in episode: "The Pursued" (episode # 3.9) 12 March 1968
"The F.B.I." playing "Howard Bergdahl" in episode: "The Messenger" (episode # 3.22) 10 March 1968
"Run for Your Life" playing "Dr. George Graham" in episode: "The Killing Scene" (episode # 3.19) 1 February 1968
"Hallmark Hall of Fame" playing "Captain Marvel" in episode: "Elizabeth the Queen" 31 January 1968
"Mannix" playing "Fred Restin" in episode: "Deadfall: Part 2" (episode # 1.18) 27 January 1968 and "Deadfall: Part 1" (episode # 1.17) 20 January 1968
"N.Y.P.D." playing "Phelan" in episode: "Shakedown" (episode # 1.1) 5 September 1967
"ABC Stage 67" playing "Lou Coolidge" in episode: "The Confession" (episode # 1.5) 19 October 1966
"The Trials of O'Brien" playing "Sam Styles" in episode: "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?" (episode # 1.9) 13 November 1965
"The Defenders" playing "District Attorney" in episode: "Only a Child" (episode # 4.30) 13 May 1965
"The Nurses" playing "Dr. Fellowes" in episode: "An Unweeded Garden" (episode # 3.30) 11 May 1965
"The Defenders" in episode: "The Objector" (episode # 4.19) 11 February 1965
"The Nurses" playing "Dr. Zack Fuller" in episodes:
"The Prisoner: Part 1" (episode # 3.2) 29 September 1964
"The Intern Syndrome" (episode # 2.18) 23 January 1964
"To Spend, to Give, to Want" (episode # 2.12) 12 December 1963
"Two Black Candles" (episode # 1.9) 22 November 1962
"The Defenders" playing "Dr. Marvin Graham" in episode: "All the Silent Voices" (episode # 3.18) 1 February 1964
"Espionage" playing "Kevin" in episode: "The Whistling Shrimp" (episode # 1.8) 20 November 1963
"Hallmark Hall of Fame" playing "Jacob" in episode: "The Patriots" 15 November 1963
"The Defenders" in episode: "The Captive" (episode # 3.3) 12 October 1963
"Car 54, Where Are You?" in episode: "The Star Boarder" (episode # 2.21) 10 February 1963
"Naked City" playing "Al Boris" in episode: "Man Without a Skin" (episode # 4.20) 6 February 1963
"Car 54, Where Are You?" in episode: "Occupancy, August 1st" (episode # 2.6) 21 October 1962
"The Nurses" playing "Dr. Lovett" in episode: "Fly, Shadow" (episode # 1.3) 11 October 1962
"The DuPont Show of the Week" playing "Dennis Wilcox" in episode: "Big Deal in Laredo" (episode # 2.4) 7 October 1962
"Naked City" in episode: "Strike a Statue" (episode # 3.28) 16 May 1962
"'Way Out" in episode: "False Face" (episode # 1.7) 26 May 1961
"Play of the Week" in episode: "Burning Bright" (episode # 1.3) 26 October 1959

TV MOVIES
For Their Own Good (1993) (TV) (uncredited) .... Sally's father
There Were Times, Dear (1987) (TV) .... Don Mason
Murder in Three Acts (1986) (TV) .... Dr. Wallace Strange
Toughlove (1985) (TV) .... Max Wiley
Sweet Revenge (1984) (TV) .... Sen. Arthur Hagerty
Quarterback Princess (1983) (TV) .... Mr. Caine
I Want to Live (1983) (TV) .... Warden
Forbidden Love (1982) (TV) .... Burt Wagner
The Day the Bubble Burst (1982) (TV) .... Mr. Block
Help Wanted: Male (1982) (TV) .... Milhauser
Mark, I Love You (1980) (TV) .... Mr. Bassett
Death Penalty (1980) (TV) .... John Mulligan
Samurai (1979) (TV) .... Frank Boyd
Crisis in Mid-air (1979) (TV) .... Brad Mullins
Law of the Land (1976) (TV) .... Rev. Mr. Endicott
The Missiles of October (1974) (TV) .... Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
Panic on the 5:22 (1974) (TV) .... Hal Rodgers
Senior Year (1974) (TV) .... Paul Reed
Heat Wave! (1974) (TV) .... Prescott
Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) (TV) .... Falcon
Dying Room Only (1973) (TV) .... Sheriff
Fireball Forward (1972) (TV) .... Col. Talbot
The Bravos (1972) (TV) .... Capt. Detroville
The Death of Me Yet (1971) (TV) .... Hank Keller
The Whole World Is Watching (1969) (TV) .... Huston
Deadlock (1969/I) (TV) .... George Stack
Pendulum (1969) .... Det. J.J. 'Red' Thornton
The Sound of Anger (1968) (TV) .... Andrew Pearce
The Borgia Stick (1967) (TV) .... Craigmeyer
"The Sacco-Vanzetti Story" (1960) (mini) TV Series .... Newspaperman
Burning Bright (1959) (TV)

TV MOVIE PILOTS
Gemini Man (1976) (TV) .... Dr. Harold Schuyler
Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976) (TV) .... Col. Thomas A. Laird Baretta (1975) (TV) .... Insp. Shiller
Catch-22 (1973) (TV) .... Col. Cathcart
Hawkins on Murder (1973) (TV) .... Dr. Aaronson
Sarge (1971) (TV) .... Father Frank Dinsmore
San Francisco International (1970) (TV) .... George Woodruff
D.A.: Murder One (1969) (TV) .... Dr. Carl Enright

CLASSICS ON THE TUBE
Waiting for Godot (1977) (TV) .... Vladimir
"Hallmark Hall of Fame" playing "La Hire" in episode: "Saint Joan" 4 December 1967
Our Town (1959) (TV) .... Dr. Gibbs

MOVIE WITH CONNECTION TO THE TV UNIVERSE
The Nude Bomb (1980) .... Chief

I have some thoughts on a few of these entries, and I'll be posting those in a separate entry.....

BCnU....
Tele-Toby