In 1949, Cisar co-starred with a young Mike Wallace in the short-lived police drama Stand By for Crime.

[1]: 252  Series co-star Gale Gordon took the name "Theodore Mooney" and added the middle initial "J."

for his character, Theodore J. Mooney, a tough-minded banker on Lucille Ball's second sitcom, The Lucy Show.

Cisar appeared in a 1965 episode of The Cara Williams Show with Cara Williams and portrayed character Donald Hollinger's father in That Girl, the Marlo Thomas sitcom which aired on ABC, and Cyrus Tankersley on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and its sequel Mayberry, R.F.D.

Unbilled in his first film, 1948's Call Northside 777, he was credited at the bottom of the cast list in his next feature, 1949's Johnny Holiday.