Bernard Philip Ofner (October 20, 1913[citation needed] – August 17, 1982), better known by his stage name Barney Phillips, was an American film, television, and radio actor.

Ed Jacobs on the 1950s Dragnet television series, appearances in the 1960s on The Twilight Zone, in which he played a Venusian living under cover on Earth in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

[citation needed] Interested in acting, he got a small part in an independently produced Grade-B Western called Black Aces in 1937, but his show business career then languished.

[citation needed] Following the war, Phillips procured small parts in several films during 1949–1952, before getting a regular role on the NBC television version of Jack Webb's Dragnet, as Sgt.

In 1962, Phillips was cast as the historical General Winfield Scott Hancock in the episode "The Truth Teller" of the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.