Born Herbert Vigran in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. A well known character actor, Vigran was originally a law school graduate. He later chose to pursue acting, and performed in hundreds of radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante. He appeared frequently as various villains on the TV Series Adventures of Superman (1952), and made several guest appearances on television series like The Brady Bunch (1969) and I Love Lucy (1951). He died November 29, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
Remington Steele (1982)
Guest starring as Seymour Glass / Fred Melneck
- Episode 3x21: Steele Trying (May 7, 1985)
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Guest starring as Pop
- Episode 1x08: The Night the Cylons Landed (2) (Apr 20, 1980) [Co-Star]
Knots Landing (1979)
Guest starring as Cabbie
- Episode 1x05: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Jan 25, 1980) [Co-Star]
Charlie's Angels (1976)
Guest starring as Joe Weatherby
- Episode 3x14: Angels on Vacation (Jan 10, 1979) [Co-Star]
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Guest starring as Max
- Episode 3x06: One Chance to Live (Oct 17, 1974)
Emergency! (1972)
Guest starring as Committee Chairman
- Episode S01 Special: The Wedsworth-Townsend Act (Jan 15, 1972) [Co-Star]
Guest starring as Lou
- Episode 6x18: Firehouse Quintet (Mar 5, 1977)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1972)
Guest starring as Sal Goldstein
- Episode 1x11: Horror in the Heights (Dec 20, 1974) [Co-Star]
Nanny and the Professor (1970)
Guest starring as The Judge
- Episode 2x22: The Unknown Factor (Mar 5, 1971)
Love, American Style (1969)
Guest starring as Bill Jenks
- Episode 1x55: Love and the King (Feb 6, 1970)
The Brady Bunch (1969)
Guest starring as Harry
- Episode 1x15: 54-40 and Fight (Jan 9, 1970)
Guest starring as Examiner
- Episode 5x15: The Driver's Seat (Jan 11, 1974)
The Doris Day Show (1968)
Guest starring as Dr. Crawford
- Episode 2x12: You're as Old as You Feel (Dec 29, 1969)
Adam-12 (1968)
Guest starring as Salesman
- Episode 3x17: Log 066: The Vandals (Jan 28, 1971)
Guest starring as Gus Archer
- Episode 5x02: The Late Baby (Sep 20, 1972)
Guest starring as Sam Conrad
- Episode 6x13: Southwest Division (Dec 19, 1973)
The Adventures of Gulliver (1968)
Starring as Glum
(17 episodes)
- Episode 1x17: The Hero (Jan 4, 1969)
- Episode 1x16: Gulliver's Challenge (Dec 28, 1968)
- Episode 1x15: The Missing Crown (Dec 21, 1968)
- Episode 1x14: The Masquerade (Dec 14, 1968)
- Episode 1x13: The Runaway (Dec 7, 1968)
- Episode 1x12: The Dark Sleep (Nov 30, 1968)
- Episode 1x11: The Rescue (Nov 23, 1968)
- Episode 1x10: Little Man of the Year (Nov 16, 1968)
- Episode 1x09: Mysterious Forest (Nov 9, 1968)
- Episode 1x08: Hurricane Island (Nov 2, 1968)
- Episode 1x07: Exit Leech (Oct 26, 1968)
- Episode 1x06: The Perils of the Lilliputs (Oct 19, 1968)
- Episode 1x05: The Forbidden Pool (Oct 12, 1968)
- Episode 1x04: The Tiny Viking (Oct 5, 1968)
- Episode 1x03: The Capture (Sep 28, 1968)
- Episode 1x02: The Valley of Time (Sep 21, 1968)
- Episode 1x01: Dangerous Journey (Sep 14, 1968)
The Mothers-In-Law (1967)
Guest starring as Judge
- Episode 1x22: Herb's Little Helpers (Feb 11, 1968)
Dragnet (1967)
Guest starring as Paul Woods
- Episode 4x15: Homicide - Who Killed Who? (Jan 29, 1970)
Guest starring as Desk Clerk
- Episode 2x15: The Christmas Story (Dec 21, 1967)
Guest starring as John Hagen
- Episode 2x24: The Suicide Attempt (Feb 29, 1968)
Guest starring as Pete Gulka
- Episode 3x10: Public Affairs - DR-14 (Nov 28, 1968)
Guest starring as Mr. Ferguson
- Episode 3x19: Frauds - DR-28 (Feb 20, 1969)
Guest starring as Al Sousa
- Episode 4x02: Homicide - The Student (Sep 25, 1969)
Guest starring as Erv Fowler
- Episode 4x26: D.H.Q. - The Victims (Apr 16, 1970)
I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
Guest starring as Judge Hennessey
- Episode 2x19: You Can't Arrest Me... I Don't Have a Driver's License (Jan 23, 1967)
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Guest starring as Lucky
- Episode 1x17: Little Island, Big Gun (Jan 23, 1965) [Uncredited]
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)
Guest starring as Tour Guide
- Episode 4x07: Gomer Says "Hey" to the President (Oct 20, 1967)
Guest starring as Barber
- Episode 2x22: A Star is Not Born (Feb 11, 1966)
Guest starring as Waiter
(2 episodes)
- Episode 3x23: Lou Ann Poovie Sings Again (Feb 22, 1967)
- Episode 3x15: Love's Old Sweet Song (Dec 28, 1966)
Bewitched (1964)
Guest starring as Sam the Bartender
- Episode 2x21: Fastest Gun on Madison Avenue (Feb 3, 1966)
Guest starring as Sergeant
(4 episodes)
- Episode 8x25: Samantha's Witchcraft Blows a Fuse (Mar 18, 1972)
- Episode 8x22: George Washington Zapped Here (2) (Feb 26, 1972) [Uncredited]
- Episode 8x21: George Washington Zapped Here (1) (Feb 19, 1972)
- Episode 7x22: Darrin Goes Ape (Mar 11, 1971)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
Guest starring as George
- Episode 4x07: Dear Deductible (Nov 9, 1966)
Petticoat Junction (1963)
Guest starring as Barney Morgan
- Episode 5x02: It's Not Easy to Be a Mother (Sep 16, 1967)
Guest starring as Al
- Episode 7x12: Goodbye, Mr. Chimp (2) (Dec 13, 1969)
Temple Houston (1963)
Guest starring as TBD
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x21: A Slight Case of Larceny (Feb 13, 1964)
- Episode 1x12: Fracas at Kiowa Flats (Dec 12, 1963)
Guest starring as Wak
- Episode 1x18: Sam's Boy (Jan 23, 1964)
McHale's Navy (1962)
Guest starring as Congressman Roger S. Fogelson
- Episode 2x17: A Medal for Parker (Jan 7, 1964)
Guest starring as Pete Morgan
- Episode 4x26: Who Was That German I Saw You With? (Mar 15, 1966)
Guest starring as Captain Wilson
- Episode 1x28: Portrait of a Peerless Leader (Apr 25, 1963)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
Guest starring as Handler
- Episode 4x17: The Trotting Horse (Jan 12, 1966)
Guest starring as Mr. Armstrong
- Episode 7x20: The Phantom Fifth Floor (Feb 12, 1969)
The Virginian (1962)
Guest starring as Drummer
- Episode 1x16: The Exiles (Jan 9, 1963)
Guest starring as Arthur Wyman
- Episode 2x02: To Make This Place Remember (Sep 25, 1963)
87th Precinct (1961)
Guest starring as Detective Bartholdi
- Episode 1x17: Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (Jan 15, 1962)
Mister Ed (1961)
Guest starring as Joe Burke
- Episode 2x16: Horse Wash (Feb 4, 1962)
Guest starring as Postman
- Episode 4x09: Taller Than She (Dec 1, 1963)
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Guest starring as Bill Medwin
- Episode 2x28: The Bookie Barber (Apr 16, 1962)
The Flintstones (1960)
Guest starring as Cop
(3 episodes)
- Episode 3x02: Fred's New Boss (Sep 21, 1962)
- Episode 2x30: Kleptomaniac Caper (Apr 13, 1962)
- Episode 2x27: The Mailman Cometh (Mar 23, 1962)
The Untouchables (1959)
Guest starring as Jake Lingle
- Episode 1x03: The Jake Lingle Killing (Oct 29, 1959)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
Guest starring as Policeman
- Episode 1x35: The Unregistered Nurse (Jun 7, 1960)
Guest starring as Police Chief Rosenbloom
- Episode 2x35: Take Me to Your Leader (Jun 20, 1961)
One Step Beyond (1959)
Guest starring as Grocery Wagon Driver
- Episode 2x17: Earthquake (Jan 12, 1960)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Guest starring as Augie
- Episode 3x23: Strange Bedfellows (Feb 17, 1961)
Guest starring as Photographer
- Episode 4x24: Twice Dead (Mar 2, 1962) [Uncredited]
The Donna Reed Show (1958)
Guest starring as Mr. Sprague
- Episode 2x32: Jeff, the Financial Genius (May 5, 1960)
Guest starring as Judge
- Episode 3x24: Tony Martin Visits (Mar 2, 1961)
The Ed Wynn Show (1958)
Starring as Ernie Hinshaw
(16 episodes)
- Episode 1x16: The Music Lovers (Jan 1, 1959)
- Episode 1x15: New York Adventure (Dec 25, 1958)
- Episode 1x14: Midge's Award (Dec 18, 1958)
- Episode 1x13: Exchange Professor (Dec 11, 1958)
- Episode 1x12: New Boy in Town (Dec 4, 1958)
- Episode 1x11: Aunt Lydia Comes to Town (Nov 27, 1958)
- Episode 1x10: The Parking Ticket (Nov 20, 1958)
- Episode 1x09: A Date with Mrs. Creavy (Nov 13, 1958)
- Episode 1x08: Younger Than Autumn (Nov 6, 1958)
- Episode 1x07: Jalopy Derby (Oct 30, 1958)
- Episode 1x06: Lovers' Lane (Oct 23, 1958)
- Episode 1x05: Laurie's Career (Oct 16, 1958)
- Episode 1x04: Nature Knows Best (Oct 9, 1958)
- Episode 1x03: The Scholarship (Oct 2, 1958)
- Episode 1x02: The Crossing Guard (Sep 25, 1958)
- Episode 1x01: Sincerely Sam Hill (Sep 18, 1958)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
Guest starring as Bartender
- Episode 1x18: Rope Law (Jan 3, 1959) [Uncredited]
Leave It to Beaver (1957)
Guest starring as Stanley the Barber
- Episode 1x06: Brotherly Love (Nov 8, 1957)
Trackdown (1957)
Guest starring as Bartender
- Episode 1x21: The Bounty Hunter (Mar 7, 1958) [Uncredited]
The Restless Gun (1957)
Guest starring as Jim Pincher
- Episode 1x28: The Whip (Mar 31, 1958)
Guest starring as Sheriff Longhorn
- Episode 2x37: A Very Special Investigator (Jun 15, 1959)
Maverick (1957)
Guest starring as Mr. Butler
- Episode 5x03: The Golden Fleecing (Oct 8, 1961)
Guest starring as Pender
- Episode 4x02: Hadley's Hunters (Sep 25, 1960)
Guest starring as Ed Cramer
- Episode 4x14: The Bold Fenian Man (Dec 18, 1960)
Guest starring as Elkins
- Episode 5x10: Marshal Maverick (Apr 1, 1962)
Perry Mason (1957)
Guest starring as Charlie (Bartender)
- Episode 1x19: Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Haunted Husband (Jan 25, 1958)
Guest starring as Ernest Pritchard
- Episode 3x23: The Case of the Slandered Submarine (May 14, 1960)
The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955)
Guest starring as Joe
- Episode 2x13: Deadline Decision (Mar 20, 1957)
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955)
Guest starring as Stranger with $1000
- Episode 1x06: The Life of Vernon Hathaway (Nov 9, 1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Guest starring as Judge Brooker
(11 episodes)
- Episode 20x17: The Fires of Ignorance (Jan 27, 1975)
- Episode 19x23: To Ride a Yeller Horse (Mar 18, 1974)
- Episode 19x13: The Deadly Innocent (Dec 17, 1973)
- Episode 19x09: A Game of Death...An Act of Love (2) (Nov 12, 1973)
- Episode 18x19: A Quiet Day in Dodge (Jan 29, 1973)
- Episode 17x23: Alias Festus Haggen (Mar 6, 1972)
- Episode 17x19: One for the Road (Jan 24, 1972)
- Episode 17x16: No Tomorrow (Jan 3, 1972)
- Episode 17x15: P.S. Murry Christmas (Dec 27, 1971)
- Episode 17x09: Lijah (Nov 8, 1971)
- Episode 16x11: The Witness (Nov 23, 1970)
The Wonderful World of Disney (1954)
Guest starring as Helicopter Mechanic
- Episode 16x02: My Dog, the Thief (1) (Sep 21, 1969) [Uncredited]
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954)
Guest starring as Professor Wirt
- Episode 5x07: The Cloudbusters (Oct 31, 1958)
Father Knows Best (1954)
Guest starring as George
- Episode 2x10: Father is a Dope (Nov 2, 1955) [Uncredited]
The Mickey Rooney Show (1954)
Guest starring as Police Captain
- Episode 1x06: The Grunion Hunt Mystery (Oct 2, 1954)
Four Star Playhouse (1952)
Guest starring as Monte
(2 episodes)
- Episode 4x29: A Long Way From Texas (May 3, 1956)
- Episode 3x31: The House Always Wins (Apr 28, 1955)
Guest starring as Sam Rawlings
- Episode 4x40: The Stand-In (Jul 19, 1956)
Guest starring as TBD
- Episode 2x19: Indian Taker (Jan 28, 1954)
Guest starring as Reporter
- Episode 2x11: The Girl On The Park Bench (Dec 3, 1953)
Guest starring as Marc
- Episode 4x17: Safe Keeping (Feb 9, 1956)
Adventures of Superman (1952)
Guest starring as Mugsy Maple
- Episode 6x07: The Big Forget (Mar 17, 1958)
Guest starring as Arnold Woodman
- Episode 4x10: Blackmail (May 26, 1956)
Guest starring as Legs Leemy
- Episode 2x22: Jimmy Olsen, Boy Editor (Feb 13, 1954)
Guest starring as Sy Horton
- Episode 3x04: Superman Week (May 14, 1955)
Guest starring as Mortimer Murray
- Episode 1x11: No Holds Barred (Nov 28, 1952)
Guest starring as Georgie Gleap
- Episode 5x12: Mr. Zero (May 24, 1957)
Dragnet (1951)
Guest starring as Leonard Clark
- Episode 4x31: The Big Mask (Mar 31, 1955)
Guest starring as Jocko Harris
- Episode 2x04: The Big Seventeen (Nov 6, 1952)
Guest starring as Pete Eigen
- Episode 3x26: The Big Quack (Feb 25, 1954)
Guest starring as Eugene Murray
- Episode 3x34: The Big Frame (Apr 22, 1954)
Guest starring as Dale Eggers
- Episode 4x06: The Big Kid (Sep 30, 1954)
Guest starring as TBD
(2 episodes)
- Episode 8x33: The Big Bray (Jul 12, 1959)
- Episode 2x08: The Big Cop (Jan 2, 1953)
Guest starring as Sam Phillips
- Episode 2x20: The Big Light (Mar 26, 1953)
Guest starring as Henry Miller
- Episode 2x14: The Big Hate (Feb 12, 1953)
Guest starring as Desk Clerk
- Episode 3x17: The Big Little Jesus (Dec 24, 1953)
Guest starring as Harry Venner
- Episode 7x27: The Big Wardrobe (Apr 3, 1958)
I Love Lucy (1951)
Guest starring as Jule
(2 episodes)
- Episode 2x03: The Anniversary Present (Sep 29, 1952)
- Episode 2x02: The Saxophone (Sep 22, 1952)
Guest starring as Joe
- Episode 2x31: Never Do Business with Friends (Jun 29, 1953)
Guest starring as Al Sparks
- Episode 3x23: Lucy is Envious (Mar 29, 1954)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Guest starring as Jason
- Episode 6x26: Clothes Make the Man (Apr 5, 1957)
Guest starring as Walt Carter
- Episode 3x25: The Jungle Trap (Feb 19, 1954)
Guest starring as Hendricks
- Episode 4x54: Wild Call (Sep 16, 1955)
Guest starring as TBD
(2 episodes)
- Episode 6x08: Once Upon a Crime (Nov 30, 1956)
- Episode 5x49: The Press Agent (Sep 7, 1956)
The Red Skelton Show (1951)
Guest starring as Storekeeper
- Episode 13x25: On Top of Old Hokey (Mar 3, 1964)
Guest starring as The Judge
- Episode 12x18: Half a Lawyer is Better than None (Jan 29, 1963)
Guest starring as Guest
- Episode 13x07: Bewitched, Bothered and Brainless (Oct 15, 1963)
Guest starring as Man on CBS Studio Tour
- Episode 16x32: The Nag and I (May 9, 1967)
The Jack Benny Program (1950)
Guest starring as Steve
- Episode 15x26: Jack Appears on a Panel Show (Apr 2, 1965)
Guest starring as Photographer
- Episode 12x12: Jack Does Opera (Jan 7, 1962)
Guest starring as Quizmaster
- Episode 6x01: Jack Goes to Dennis' House (Sep 25, 1955)
Guest starring as Herb Vigran
- Episode 10x03: Jack Webb Show (Nov 1, 1959)
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950)
Guest starring as The Pest Control Man
- Episode 1x21: Too Much of the Mortons (Jul 5, 1951)
Guest starring as The Man in the Dentist's Office
- Episode 4x30: Vanderlip Buys Black Negligee for His Wife (Apr 26, 1954)
Guest starring as The Man with the Money Order
- Episode 5x14: George's Mother-in-Law Trouble (Jan 3, 1955)
Guest starring as The Delivery Man
- Episode 5x39: Lucille Vanderlip Gives a Barbeque Party (Jun 27, 1955)
Guest starring as The Cab Driver
- Episode 6x13: Gracie Pawns Her Ring (Dec 26, 1955)
The Bob Hope Show (1950)
Guest starring as Herb Vigran
- Episode 11x02: Perry Como, Ginger Rogers (Oct 22, 1960)