Vic Tayback

Victor Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples in the comedy-drama film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), for which he won two consecutive Golden Globes.

Cast

Getting Married

Death Follows a Psycho

No Deposit, No Return

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Carface (voice)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head

Mansion of the Doomed

Detective Simon

Report to the Commissioner

Lt. Seidensticker

The Cheap Detective

Lieutenant DiMaggio

Five Minutes to Live

The Shaggy D.A.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Detective Merchant (uncredited)

Norm (uncredited)

Calvin Carruthers

The Don Is Dead

Weekend Warriors

Plainclothes Officer at TWA Counter (uncredited)

The Blue Knight

Smedke (archive footage)

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

Capt. Barney Marcus

Portrait of a Stripper

The Underachievers

Warren Finley, Police Lieutenant

Little Ladies of the Night

The Jesse Owens Story

Emperor of the North

Treasure Island

Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers

Floyd 'Snake' Kraslowski

They Call It Murder

The Exterminator (Greengrass)

Through the Magic Pyramid

Love with the Proper Stranger

Cye (uncredited)

This Year's Blonde

Charles 'Lucky' Luciano

The Night the City Screamed

Morris Brustein

Special Delivery

The Three Kings

The Alpha Caper

Partners in Crime

Honor Thy Father

The Power of the Resurrection

Simon the Canaanite