Ron Masak

Was Named Coca-Cola's Guardian Angel 2016 at the American Airlines Celebrity Ski Event benefiting Cystic Fibrosis.

Presented The Jack Oakie Comendy Achievement Award in 2015.

In 2013 he and his wife Kay rode in their 10th Hollywood Christmas parade. Over the years many family members rode with them.

Hollywood Ca. USAStill working, acting new TV Pilot writing new TV Pilot emceeing many events around the world. [December 2012]

His book: I've Met All My Heroes from A-Z was published and is sold on Amazon.com. [December 2009]

Appeared in the infomercial, hosted by Pat Boone, for "Vital Factors" bio-protector system. [2007]

Was presented The Allen Ludden Humanitarian Award for 2003 by the Motion Picture Mothers. It was presented by former winner Tom Selleck.

During his 8 years as Sheriff Mort Metzger on Murder, She Wrote (1984), he only had one female deputy, Deputy Lynn Olsen. She was played by his actress daughter Kathryn Masak. She is now married to a Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff.

In his hometown of Chicago, Ron was resident leading man at The Candlelight Dinner Playhouse from 1962 to 1966, never missing a single performance. As with many performers, it was the Army that provided Ron with a platform from which to display his all-around talents for performing, writing and directing.

Post Soldier of the Month (Fort Benjamin Harrison) [1960]

Toured the world doing impressions: Considered the first Elvis Presley impersonator as early as 1956. Did Elvis on The Spade Cooley Show (1957).

Ron Masak (MAY-SACK) was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a salesman/musician (Floyd L. ), and a mother (Mildred), who was a merchandise buyer. Ron attended Chicago City College, and studied theater at both the CCC and the Drama Guild. He made his acting debut with the Drama Guild in Chicago in Stalag 17 in 1954. During the course of his career, he has starred in 25 feature films and guest starred in some 350 television shows. Perhaps the most beloved character, and the one for which he is most famous, is that of Sheriff Mort Metzger on the hit television series, Murder, She Wrote. Given that he has also been seen and heard in hundred of television and radio commercials (he was named, "King of Commercials" by columnist James Bacon), it is no wonder that he is often introduced as one of America's most familiar faces. Trained in the classics, Ron has proved to be equally at home on stage or screen with Shakespeare or slapstick. He has played everything from Stanley in Streetcar Named Desire and Sakini in Teahouse of the August Moon to Will Stockdale in No Time For Sergeants and Antony in Julius Caesar. As more proof of his versatility, in one production of Mr. Roberts, he played Ensign Pulver and in another he portrayed Mr. Roberts himself.

As a ten-year-old he was inspired by The Jolson Story (1946). He started doing impressions of Al Jolson at parties and once stopped a gang fight on the school grounds by climbing on a roof and singing.