Schallert Grave

The ubiquitous William Schallert, best remembered as Martin Lane, father of Patty Lane (as well as Martin’s identical twin Kenneth, father of identical cousin Cathy), has died at the age of 93. It's so hard when TV parents have to bury their TV children. Among his 375 credits on imdb are the paramedic in the beginning of Them! who finds the little girl who survived an attack by giant ants; the marshal of Oracle, Texas who gets killed about 2 minutes into Gunslinger and is replaced by Beverly Garland in the MST3K-ed Roger Corman classic; Nilz Baris, the United Federation of Planets' undersecretary in charge of agricultural affairs who was vexed by vermin in The Trouble with Tribbles; the new Russ Lawrence in The New Gidget; the athletic director from Aberdeen College who hired Luther Van Damm away from Minnesota State only to then fire him on his first day after he violated NCAA rules and got the school put on probation on Coach; teacher of two generations of Cleavers as Mr. Bloomgarden on Leave it to Beaver and The New Leave it to Beaver; and in one of his last roles, the mayor of Bon Temps on True Blood.