Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008)[1] was an American actor and impressionist, who was cast in hundreds of television episodes from the 1950s to the early 1990s, often appearing in recurring roles on various series.

Some of those roles and series include portraying various characters on: The Andy Griffith Show, as real estate salesman Pete Dudley in My Favorite Martian, as Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show, Sergeant Hacker on Gomer Pyle, USMC, Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch, and as Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on both All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place.

While appearing on Broadway in Stalag 17, he got his break into television by getting the role of Corporal Steve Henshaw[2] on the popular The Phil Silvers Show program.

He provided the voices of cartoon character Magilla Gorilla, the lion Drooper on The Banana Splits, archvillain Tyrone in The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty and Bluto on The All New Popeye Hour.

He also made three guest appearances on Perry Mason in various roles, including reporter Bert Kannon in the 1966 episode "The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise."

[4] In the early 1980s, Melvin appeared as a regular in Archie Bunker's Place, in which he reprised the now more important role of Barney Hefner.