John Melvin Bleifer (July 26, 1901[citation needed] – January 24, 1992) was an American actor whose career began at the end of the silent film era, and lasted through the mid-1980s.

[7] He also had several featured roles, such as: Pedro in the classic 1940 swashbuckler, The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power;[8] as Oscar Zimmerman in the spy drama Waterfront, starring J. Carrol Naish and John Carradine;[9] and as Franz Leiber in The Bowery Boys comedy, Smugglers' Cove (1948).

[12] He continued to appear in smaller roles in a number of features, including: the 1951 Humphrey Bogart film noir, Sirocco;[13] 1953's The Juggler, starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Edward Dmytryk;[14] the 1955 musical Kismet, starring Howard Keel and Ann Blyth;[15] the 1955 Bowery Boys comedy, Spy Chasers;[16] the 1957 musical Silk Stockings, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse;[17] and Edward Dmytryk's 1959 remake of The Blue Angel.

[18] In the 1950s Bleifer appeared in numerous television shows, such as Dangerous Assignment (1952), Navy Log (1956), I Love Lucy (1956), The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), Perry Mason (1958), Peter Gunn (1959), and Rawhide (1959).

He made numerous television appearances on shows such as Death Valley Days (1960), The Lawless Years (1961), The Untouchables (1961), Dr. Kildare (1962-3), The Man from U.N.C.L.E.