Baltimore-born Eddie Mayehoff started out as a salesman before finding out that comedy was his real forte. A jack of all trades, he went on to become a bandleader (he attended the Yale School of Music), a radio comedy writer and a television emcee at various stages of his longstanding career. As an actor, the husky-voiced entertainer with the ...
Though born in Baltimore, he spent most of his youth growing up in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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His father was Mordecai Mayehoff who was a Russian born Jew. His mother was named Maud and she was born in Maryland.
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Earned a Tony-nomination as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for his work in "A Visit to a Small Planet" in 1957.
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Married four times but had no children. He considered only one of those marriages, which lasted eleven years, serious. He never had any children.
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Later in life he became a partner in a sales promotion and advertising firm and dropped out of sight. The only time he was seen on camera was in radio and TV commercials as "The Old Pro" spokesman for Falstaff Beer.
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Earned a Tony-nomination for his work in "Visit to a Small Planet" in 1957.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nanny and the Professor
1970
TV Series
Mr. Haller
The Good Guys
1969
TV Series
Commander Spaulding
Love, American Style
1969
TV Series
Winthrop Armstrong (segment "Love and the Athlete")
Luv
1967
D.A. Goodhart
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1966
TV Series
Fred Thompson
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
Harold Lampson
Playhouse 90
1956
TV Series
Philip Dunlap
Studio One in Hollywood
1956
TV Series
Col. George Woolery
Artists and Models
1955
Mr. Murdock
Shower of Stars
1954
TV Series
That's My Boy
1954
TV Series
'Jarring' Jack Jackson
Off Limits
1952
Karl Danzig
Doc Corkle
1952
TV Series
Doc Korkle
The Stooge
1951
Leo Lyman
That's My Boy
1951
Jarring Jack Jackson
Kraft Theatre
1947
TV Series
Merton Gill
Hour Glass
1946
TV Series
Host
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
That's My Boy
1951
performer: "Ridgeville Fight Song"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Jack Paar Tonight Show
1962
TV Series
Himself
The Tonight Show
1962
TV Series
Himself
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