Robert Dow Jellison[2] (August 21, 1908[3][2] – April 21, 1980) was an American character actor of radio, stage and screen, most often seen in comic roles, the best known being Bobby the Bellboy in I Love Lucy.
[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Interviewed in 1953, Jellison recalled making his professional debut at age 3 as part of his parents' vaudeville act, working the lyceum and Chautauqua circuits.
Subsequent conversations with staff dramatist Marjorie Ellis McGrady led to Bob's employment at the station, initially as a sound effects man,[20] and later as an actor.
[23][5] Other television credits include Meet Millie and Life with Luigi, while two films reportedly "enlivened [by] his comic antics" are MGM's Too Young to Kiss and the RKO short subject Newlyweds Take a Chance.
[24] Another, the 1962 George Roy Hill-Isobel Lennart screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, features veteran character actors Jellison, Ransom Sherman, Artie Lewis, Norman Leavitt, Lee Krieger, and Herbert Vigran as a sextet of off-key Christmas carolers.