Charlie Callas
Born December 20. 1924 in Brooklyn New York
As a stand-up comedian Mr. Callas' defining moment was, perhaps, getting banned permanently from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson after shoving Johnny on-air in a desperate attempt to generate laughs. That was frowned upon, apparently.
His sidekickerage came at the service of Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert for three seasons of Switch, a CBS series that ran between 1975-78. Wagner and Albert were a crimefighting duo, the latter playing a retired cop and the former an ex-conman who threw together to form a Private Investigations office (as was the way in the 70s) whose speciality was "out-conning the cons." Callas played Max Argos, another former con-man and associate of Wagner's character, Pete Ryan. His concurrent function, other than providing ex-con-man insight, was running a restaurant where the crew could meet.
Mr. Callas, apparently also an avid photographer and astronomer, just wrapped production (a cameo appearence) in the as-yet-unreleased 3-D movie Horrorween which also features appearences by Jenna Jameson, William Shatner and Donald Trump.
Here he is with Dom DeLuise.
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