Jack Mullaney

Jack's mode of comedy went out of style with the Vietnam Era and, despite a few glimpses of him in such 1970s films as Little Big Man (1970) and Where Does It Hurt? (1972), he couldn't sustain his career.

Jack was also featured in Presley's film Spinout (1966), but he and the film were met with little fanfare.

Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), and Elvis Presley's klutzy sidekick in Tickle Me (1965).

Jack's best showcases were as the bungling scientist on My Living Doll (1964) starring Robert Cummings and the genial astronaut who ends up in the Stone Age in It's About Time (1966) co-starring Frank Aletter, Imogene Coca, and Joe E. Ross.

TV sitcom work served the actor much better as the sure-to-please bellhop on The Ann Sothern Show (1958) and accident-prone supply officer on Ensign O'Toole (1962). Neither part, however, was strong enough to propel him to comedy stardom.

In minor film parts from 1957, he provided amiable comic relief, hanging around and about the periphery of silly, youth-oriented fluff, including the roles of an Air Force captain in The Absent Minded Professor (1961), Vincent Price's slow-thinking assistant Igor in Dr.

In one of his first jobs, he provided audience laughs on the early sitcom Mister Peepers (1952). He was paid ten dollars a show for his abilities to lead a studio audience in laughter.

Dark-haired, congenial-looking actor Jack Mullaney was one of those gangly and goofy nice guy types who pervaded innocuous 1950s and '60s film and TV comedy.

Born on September 18, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he usually played the best buddy of the star who seldom got the pretty coed. Jack's poor schmucks were the huggable, clean-cut kind that every mother would want as a son.