Frank Aletter
| Frank Aletter | |
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Doro Merande, Frank Aletter, and Enid Markey from the sitcom Bringing Up Buddy
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| Born |
January 14, 1926 Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 13, 2009 (aged 83) Tarzana, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1955–1991 |
| Spouse(s) |
Lee Meriwether (married 1958-1974, divorced) Estrella Aletter (married 1984-2009, his death) |
| Children | Kyle Aletter-Oldham Lesley Aletter Julia and Alexandria Hodes |
Frank Aletter (January 14, 1926 – May 13, 2009) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
During the 1950s, Aletter appeared on Broadway in Bells Are Ringing, Time Limit, and Wish You Were Here.
He soon moved on to a prolific television career, appearing as a guest on numerous shows between 1956 and 1988. Aletter starred in three programs in the 1960s, beginning with Bringing Up Buddy, a CBS sitcom during the 1960–1961 season, featuring Aletter with Enid Markey and Doro Merande, who portrayed his overprotective spinster aunts to Aletter's character, Buddy Flower, a bachelor stockbroker. Aletter's first wife, Lee Meriwether, a former Miss America, guest-starred once on Bringing Up Buddy.
After Bringing Up Buddy, Aletter guest-starred in the ABC crime drama, Target: The Corruptors, the CBS anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show, and NBC's medical drama The Eleventh Hour. He portrayed murderer Harry Collins on the 1963 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Skeleton's Closet". Also in 1963, he co-starred in The Twilight Zone episode "The Parallel". In 1964, he played murder victim, television news reporter, Tommy Towne, in "The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist."
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