By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
Charlie Callas, the veteran actor, his crazy numbers of character-oriented comedy interrupted by a series of bizarre facial expressions and sound effects, has died. He was 83rd
Callas, a resident of Las Vegas, died yesterday of natural causes in a hospital, said his son Mark.
A former drummer for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and other major groups who turned to comedy in the mid-1960s, a time Callas describes itself as "running like a kid loose in the lounge. "
An article from 1982 told the Los Angeles Times Callas "prepares, fall off, or wrap themselves in almost anything to laugh at his routine."
"Someone once told me:" You look like a cartoon that someone recording, "Callas recalled in an interview in 1991 with the New York Newsday. "And that's what I get for a cartoon to wreak havoc, like a wild child. I'm stupid."
The whippet-thin Callas, whose visual orientation type of humor in celebrity impressions, a regular guest on television variety and talk shows in the 1960s and '70s, including "The Merv Griffin Show" for Johnny Carson was "Tonight Show" and Dean "Martin Celebrity Roast."
Comedian Jack Carter, a couple of Martin "Roast" has appeared with Callas, said Friday that "there has always been considered a sign. It as a fireman or a maid or dressed like this. Liked to Dean do things costume. "
Added Carter: .. "He has great sounds and noises, such as water gushing speech at double and has done well, it was really a character actor more than anything, but it was a nice guy, completely without malice, and it is fun to do here .. He was always working, always trying things. "
Callas often on tour with Frank Sinatra, including a nine-day performance at the Universal Amphitheater in 1982. Asked by a Times reporter how he felt working with Sinatra, Callas quipped: "Who is this man walking after me?"
On television played Callas Malcolm Argos, a reform in a piecemeal thief and swindler, who helped the case of "Switch", the 1975-78 crime drama with Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert.
It was also regular appearances on short-term variety comedy-1972 "ABC Comedy Hour" and shows occasional guest in TV series like "The Munsters, The Monkees," "The Love Boat" and "LA Law ".
Callas, who provided the voice of Elliott in the 1977 film available, "Pete's Dragon", has appeared in several films, including "The Big Mouth" and Mel Brooks "Jerry Lewis" Silent Movie, "" High Anxiety "and "History of the World: Part I"
Charlie Callas was one of thousands alone, "Brooks told the Times.." It was a thousand faces, a thousand and a thousand voices sound effects "High Anxiety", he played a cocker, it m 'cost a lot of money. - It was almost impossible, in a scene without laughing the whole team collapses arrival.
"The world of comedy will be sorely missed."
Born in Brooklyn on 20 Served in December 1927, Callas in the army during World War II before playing drums in bands with Dorsey, Claude Thornhill and Buddy Rich.
"I was always the clown when I was a musician and get the guy on the bus mad band, he told the Times in 1982. "They said I was playing" drums funny "and should become a comedian."
He semi-retired eight years ago, said his son.
Callas wife, Eva, died last year. Besides his son Mark, he is survived by a son, Larry, and two grandchildren.
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