# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allan-melvin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:12.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allan-melvin"
name: "Allan Melvin"
slug: "allan-melvin"
description: "Allan John Melvin was an American actor and impressionist, who was cast in hundreds of television episodes from the 1950s to the early 1990s, often appearing in recurring roles on various series. Some of those roles and series include portraying various characters on: The Andy Griffith Show, as real estate salesman Pete Dudley in My Favorite Martian, as Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show, Sergeant Hacker on Gomer Pyle, USMC, Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch, and as Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on both All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place. He has also voiced Tyrone the Bulldog, an archvillain in the live-action/animated series The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty and was Magilla Gorilla on The Magilla Gorilla Show, as well as Drooper on The Banana Splits."
tagline: "American actor (1923–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Allan_Melvin_-_Factory_scene_from_Arnie_1971_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1923-02-18"
deathDate: "2008-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.434808975136446
  historical:           13.67274133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578510/"
    handle:    "nm0578510"
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    title: "Allan Melvin"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump