Career Highlights: The Dick Van Dyke Show: Bad Reception in Albany
First Major Screen Credit: The Dick Van Dyke Show: Bad Reception in Albany (1966)
Biography
Comical American character actor Johnny Haymer is perhaps best known for a great variety of work on television, where he has appeared over 100 times in everything from movies to series to variety shows and specials. Haymer has also appeared in a few feature films including Annie Hall, Logan's Run, and Real Life. Haymer started out as the stand-up comedy team Sears & Haymer. He has also worked on Broadway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Johnny Haymer (January 19, 1920 – November 18, 1989) played Staff Sergeant Zelmo
Zale, a recurring character in the television series M*A*S*H. Another
high-profile role was that of the painfully unfunny stand-up comedian in the Woody Allen film Annie Hall. Haymer also was one of the announcers for the Nipsey
Russell hosted game show Your Number's Up, and appeared as one of the
servers in the original McDonald's "You deserve a break today" commercial, and in the mid 1980's, provided his voice for the
characters Swindle, Vortex,
Highbrow, and Caliburst in The
Transformers. He played butler Walter Pinkerton to puppet Madame in 1982-83 on Madame's Place. Haymer also appeared in the next-to-last episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, "All Our
Yesterdays".
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