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 Roger Carmel played the part of Merl Denker, an old friend and rival of Furley's in a Season 4 guest appearance on Three's Company. | ||||
| Personal Information | ||||
| Gender: | Male | |||
| Birth name: | Roger Charles Carmel | |||
| Born: | 27 September 1932 | |||
| Birthplace: | Brooklyn, New York | |||
| Died | 11 November 1986 (aged 54) | |||
| Deathplace: | Hollywood, California | |||
| Career/Family Information | ||||
| Years active: | 1958-1986 | |||
| Character information | ||||
| Appeared on: | Three's Company | |||
| Character played: | Merl Denker, Ralph Furley's old buddy and rival in "Ralph's Rival" in Season 4 | |||
Roger Charles Carmel (27 September 1932 - 11 November 1986) was a television and film actor known for his many guest appearances on TV shows.[1] Roger guest appeared on Three's Company in Season 4 as Merl Denker, an old buddy and rival of Furley's who moves to California in search of a job, pretending that he is a big shot in the episode "Ralph's Rival".
Career[]
Of his hundreds of roles, Roger is perhaps best remembered to TV viewers for playing the flamboyant and hapless criminal Harry Mudd in two episodes of the NBC-TV series Star Trek: The Original Series: "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd", and one episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series: ”Mudd's Passion". He is the only actor, other than those who played Enterprise crew members, to portray the same character in more than one episode of the series.
Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd in Star Trek: The Original Series
Other guest roles include the accountant Doug Wesley on CBS-TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show and Colonel Gumm on ABC-TV's Batman series. He also appeared in roles on The Patty Duke Show, I Spy, The Everglades, Hogan's Heroes, Car 54, Where Are You?, Banacek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Munsters, and Hawaii Five-O. He was a regular contestant on Pantomime Quiz, also known as Stump the Stars.
Other Works[]
Roger also voiced Smokey Bear in fire safety advertisements, and Decepticon Lieutenant cyclonus, amongst others, in the second and third seasons of the popular Transformers animated series. In the television commercials for the Naugles chain of Mexican fast-food restaurants, he played the character of Señor Naugles. He also appeared in Jerry Lewis's comeback 1981 film, Hardly Working.
Carmel starred as milksop Roger Buell in the 1967 NBC sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, but was replaced by Richard Deacon. Officially, Carmel had a salary dispute with producer Desi Arnaz, Sr., although, according to rumors, he was fired because his drug use interfered with production.[2]
Carmel was interred in New Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, New York.
References[]
- ↑ Roger C. Carmel. The New York Times.
- ↑ Newsfromme.com
