Cast & creator
Foster Brooks
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The Mike Douglas Show
Foster Brooks was one of eight sons and the son of a lawman. Getting his start in radio, Brooks was a newscaster and disc jockey in Louisville and Buffalo before making the move to television Brooks moved to L.A. in the 50s and began acting in television as well on stage as a stand-up comedian. He well known for his appearances on the Dean Martin Show and his character acting. Brooks died in California in 2001 at the age of 89.
13
film credits
58
television credits
71
1950–1998 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (71)
Showing 71 of 71 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
1961The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Guest
1961The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Bonanza
Judge Rogers
1959Bonanza
Judge
1959
Murder, She Wrote
Simon Thane
1984
Adam-12
Man
1968Adam-12
Citizen
1968Adam-12
Mr. Allen
1968Adam-12
Harry Sachs
1968Adam-12
George Selfridge
1968
Quincy, M.E.
Carriage Driver
1976
Bewitched
Robert Andrews
1964
The Beverly Hillbillies
Fiddlin Sam Dingle
1962The Beverly Hillbillies
Man
1962
I Dream of Jeannie
Englishman
1965
Starsky & Hutch
Drunk Gambler
1975
Daniel Boone
Stranger
1964
Police Woman
Darryl Everson
1974
Dinah!
Self
1974
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
Fantasy Island
Frank 'Spider' Randall
1978
Here's Lucy
David Benton Miller
1968
Gunsmoke
Ed
1955Gunsmoke
Sporting Gentleman
1955
The Munsters
The Admiral
1964
Green Acres
Major
1965Green Acres
Drunk
1965Green Acres
Farmer #1
1965Green Acres
Charlie Williams
1965
The High Chaparral
Drunk
1967
The Monkees
Conventioneer
1966
The Jetsons
(voice)
1962
Switch
Dale Abee
1975
Mork & Mindy
Miles Sternhagen
1978
The Mod Squad
Will Jackson
1968
Laredo
1965
The Flying Nun
Passenger
1967
It Takes a Thief
Drunk
1968It Takes a Thief
Judge
1968
Madame's Place
Self
1982
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
1973
Cosby
1996
Small Wonder
Roland Cardwell
1985
Challenge of the GoBots
1984
Mike Hammer
Manny, The Great Mandrell
1984
Mr. Terrific
1st Man
1967
Cannonball Run II
Fisherman #1
1984
The Munsters Today
Igor
1988$weepstake$
Edgar
1979The Partners
Willy Cooper
1971
CBS Storybreak
(voice)
1985The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
1988What a Dummy
Jackie Clark
1990
The Villain
Bank Clerk
1979Today's F.B.I.
Rainey
1981The New Bill Cosby Show
1972
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
Stoneheart / Fossil Lord (voice)
1986
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self - Roastee (archive footage)
1998
Smorgasbord
The Pilot
1983
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Doc (Townsman)
1990
Joys
Self
1976The Steve Allen Comedy Hour
1980
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Self
1983
A Concert: Behind Prison Walls
Self
1978
Super Seal
1976Happy Birthday, Las Vegas
1977
The Late Liz
Howard Borman
1971
Oddballs
Hardy Bassett
1984