Victor Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples in the comedy-drama film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), for which he won two consecutive Golden Globes.
Vic Tayback Biography / Wiki
| Name | Vic Tayback |
| Also Know | Vic Taybeck, Victor Tayback, Vick Tayback, Vic E. Tayback, Vic Tabback |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1930-01-06 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 60 |
| Deathday | 1990-05-25 |
Vic Tayback Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers | Lou | 1989-10-11 | A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money loaned for “remodeling.” When they can’t pay it… |
| Maxie | Smedke | 1973-01-01 | When deaf-mute Maxie (K.T. Baumann) goes to work at the local butcher shop, she senses strange things are afoot. When she discovers the beloved town b… |
| Treasure Island | Silver | 1986-01-01 | Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and t… |
| Portrait of a Stripper | Harry Parkins | 1979-12-29 | A young widow, supporting herself and her son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint…. |
| Through the Magic Pyramid | Horembeb | 1981-12-06 | A lad finds himself magically sent back to ancient Egypt where he and the young King Tut team up to stop their evil and overly ambitious elders…. |
| George Carlin: Playin’ with Your Head | The Bad Guys | 1986-06-14 | George Carlin is in top form with these stand-up recorded at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles in 1986. Routines included are “Losing Things,” “Chari… |
| Blood and Lace | Calvin Carruthers | 1971-03-17 | After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage…… |
| Weekend Warriors | Sgt. Burdge | 1986-10-01 | In 1961, with war looming in Berlin, an Air National Guard unit of actors, journalists and studio personnel is up for military academy consideration…. |
| The Underachievers | Coach | 1988-06-01 | Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school a… |
| Mysterious Two | Ted Randall | 1982-05-31 | Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them…. |
| This Year’s Blonde | Harry Cohn | 1980-05-18 | First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be … |
| Five Minutes to Live | Fred Dorella | 1961-12-07 | A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works…. |
| Horseplayer | George Samsa | 1990-01-20 | A blonde seduces a quirky liquor-store worker as inspiration for her artist boyfriend…. |
| Criminal Act | The Exterminator (Greengrass) | 1989-09-27 | Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system…. |
| T-Bird Gang | Policeman | 1959-10-16 | A high school boy, out to find his father’s killer, joins up with a gang of juvenile delinquents…. |
| The Blue Knight | Neil Grogan | 1973-11-11 | Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the crimi… |
| Honor Thy Father | Don A. Tirello | 1973-03-01 | Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of N… |
| No Deposit, No Return | Big Joe Adamo | 1976-02-05 | Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of th… |
| Loverboy | Harry Bruckner | 1989-04-28 | Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza … |
| Lepke | Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano | 1975-05-23 | Lepke is the feared leader of “Murder Incorporated” in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis “Lepke” Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal ca… |
| All Dogs Go to Heaven | Carface (voice) | 1989-11-17 | When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. … |
| The Shaggy D.A. | Eddie Roschak | 1976-12-17 | Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to… |
| The Gambler | One | 1974-10-02 | New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add… |
| The Black Bird | Warren Finley, Police Lieutenant | 1975-12-25 | The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon – and with the people who will stop … |
| Surftide 77 | Arms Cooper | 1962-07-17 | Private Eye Bernard Bingbang is hired by old lady Agatha Bungworthy to find her runaway niece Cynthia, heir to the family fortune, before that fortune… |
| Dark Victory | Archie | 1976-02-05 | A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor…. |
| Little Ladies of the Night | Finch | 1977-01-16 | The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has te… |
| The Jesse Owens Story | Abe Saperstein | 1984-07-09 | The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama wo… |
| The Alpha Caper | Policeman | 1973-10-06 | A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery…. |
| Suitable for Framing | Sam Franklin | 1973-12-17 | A wealthy art collector is murdered, and all signs point to a robbery gone wrong. But the nephew’s alibi is a little too convenient, and Columbo pulls… |
| Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore | Mel | 1974-12-09 | After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself a… |
| Rage! | Tommy | 1980-09-25 | In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison…. |
| Partners in Crime | 1973-03-24 | A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot…. | |
| Gangster Story | Norm (uncredited) | 1959-12-01 | Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that y… |
| Mansion of the Doomed | Detective Simon | 1976-10-01 | An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of perfor… |
| The Night the City Screamed | Morris Brustein | 1980-12-14 | A massive blackout plunges an American city into a night of terror…. |
| The Three Kings | Harold | 1987-12-17 | The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the … |
| Bullitt | Pete Ross | 1968-10-17 | Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal’s hothead brother Johnny, who is in pro… |
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Mario Pinski | 1974-05-23 | With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist…. |
| Report to the Commissioner | Lt. Seidensticker | 1975-02-05 | Police officer Patty Butler, alias “Chicklet,” is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas ‘Stick’ Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instr… |
| They Call It Murder | Jeff Poland | 1971-12-17 | A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler’s murder and a possible insurance scam…. |
| Papillon | Sergeant | 1973-12-13 | A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his esca… |
| Gambit | Plainclothes Officer at TWA Counter (uncredited) | 1966-12-21 | Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world’s wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showg… |
| Special Delivery | Wyatt | 1976-07-16 | A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and o… |
| The Cheap Detective | Lieutenant DiMaggio | 1978-06-23 | A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of… |
| The Big Bus | Goldie | 1976-06-23 | The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disaste… |
| Reel Horror | Smedke (archive footage) | 1985-01-01 | Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood…. |
| Love with the Proper Stranger | Cye (uncredited) | 1963-12-25 | Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz m… |
| Emperor of the North | Yardman | 1973-05-23 | Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone “ride the rails” for free…. |
| The Don Is Dead | Ralph Negri | 1973-11-14 | After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues…. |
| Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Detective Merchant (uncredited) | 1966-10-12 | A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive…. |
| The Choirboys | Zoony | 1977-12-23 | A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery…. |
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