Herb Vigran

• Born: Jun 05, 1910 in Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Died: Nov 28, 1986 in Los Angeles, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '40s-'70s
• Major Genres: Comedy
• Career Highlights: The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Great Petrie Fortune, Gilligan's Island: New Neighbor Sam, The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Missing Stamp
• First Major Screen Credit: I Love Lucy: The Saxophone (1952)

Biography

An alumnus of the Indiana University Law School, Herbert Vigran gave up the legal world to become an actor. Making his 1935 film debut in Vagabond Lady, Vigran had a few lean months after his first flurry of Hollywood activity, but began getting stage work in New York on the basis of a portfolio of photos showing him sharing scenes with several well-known movie actors (never mentioning that most of his film roles were bit parts). After his first Broadway success in Having Wonderful Time, Vigran returned to L.A., accepting small parts in movies while keeping busy with plenty of lucrative radio work; among his hundreds of radio assignments was the title character on the wartime sitcom "The Sad Sack." In films, the harsh-voiced, heavily eyebrowed Vigran could usually be seen as brash reporters and Runyon-esque hoodlums; his favorite role was the rumpled private eye in the 1954 Dick Powell/Debbie Reynolds comedy Susan Slept Here. During the 1950s, Vigran was most active in TV, essaying half a dozen bad guy roles on the Superman series and appearing regularly as Monte the Bartender on the Dante's Inferno episodes of the anthology series Four Star Playhouse. In the early '70s, Herb Vigran found time during his hectic movie and voice-over schedule to play the recurring role of Judge Brooker on Gunsmoke. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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