Paul Smith (American comedy actor)

Paul Smith (born February 5, 1929) is an American comic character actor with a perpetually perplexed or, alternatively, bemused expression, who, during the 1950s, 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, appeared in scores of television episodes, primarily sitcoms, including regular roles in five series, and was also seen in numerous theatrical features, television films and commercials, frequently in brief, sometimes unbilled, comedic bits.

Born in Pittsburgh as Arthur Paul Smith, he moved to Los Angeles. By the time of his 22nd birthday in 1951, began an uninterrupted 25-year acting career which lasted until his retirement, at age 47, in 1976. During the 1950s, he was seen in twenty-four theatrical features, from I Want You (1951) to The FBI Story (1959), mostly unbilled or credited near the bottom of the cast list. One exception, in 1957, was a sixth-billed role in Elvis Presley's first starring vehicle, Loving You.

Smith appeared in 21 television episodes encompassing fourteen series, from 1955's Navy Log and The 20th Century Fox Hour to 1959's Dinah Shore Show, in addition to a regular role on the 1959 sitcom Fibber McGee and Molly.

In the first of his five sitcoms, Smith played the McGees' next-door neighbor Roy Norris, a family man with a wife (Elisabeth Fraser) and 11-year-old daughter (Barbara Beaird). The actors playing the McGees (Bob Sweeney and Cathy Lewis) could not duplicate the appeal of the long-running (1935–59) original radio McGees (Jim Jordan and Marian Jordan) and the NBC series folded in January 1960 after airing 13 episodes.

...
Wikipedia