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Herbert "Herb" Vigran (June 5, 1910 – November 29, 1986) was a well-known American character actor in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his 50-year career, he made over 350 television and film appearances. ==Career== Vigran was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, but his family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was reared. He graduated with a law degree from Indiana University School of Law but later chose to pursue acting. After starting out on Broadway, he soon moved to Hollywood with no money〔 and only the Broadway acting experience. In 1939, Vigran's agent helped him secure a lead in the radio drama ''Silver Theatre''. The actor had a $5 recording made of the radio show and used it as a demo to get other jobs with his unique voice.〔 He performed in radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball and Jimmy Durante. He later had hundreds of television appearances on shows like ''Adventures of Superman'' (six episodes), ''Dragnet'' (11 episodes), ''I Love Lucy'' (four episodes), ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' (seven episodes), ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (three episodes), ''Perry Mason'' (two episodes), ''Dragnet 1967'' (seven episodes), and ''The Brady Bunch'' (two episodes). Vigran had a recurring role as Judge Brooker in ''Gunsmoke'' between 1970-1975. He appeared in a number of ''I Love Lucy'' episodes, and in the 1954 episode titled ''Lucy Is Envious'', Vigran is the promoter who hired Lucy and Ethel to dress up as "Women From Mars" for a publicity stunt. With his bushy eyebrows and balding pate, he was easily cast in a wide variety of middle-aged "everyman" roles: cops, small-time crooks, judges, jurors, bartenders, repairmen, neighbors, shopkeepers, etc. In the rock and roll movie ''Go, Johnny, Go'' (1959), Vigran played an assistant to promoter Alan Freed and performed dialogue scenes with rock legend Chuck Berry. He also provided the voice of "Whitney's boss" on the Arrowhead bottled-water television (animated) and radio commercials in the 1960s. He also played a small role (as a reporter) in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herb Vigran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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