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.
Bullitt
As Pete Ross
Getting Married
As Burt Carboni
Death Follows a Psycho
No Deposit, No Return
As Big Joe Adamo
Papillon
As Sergeant
All Dogs Go to Heaven
As Carface (voice)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
As Mario Pinski
George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head
As The Bad Guys
Mansion of the Doomed
As Detective Simon
Report to the Commissioner
As Lt. Seidensticker
The Cheap Detective
As Lieutenant DiMaggio
Five Minutes to Live
As Fred Dorella
The Shaggy D.A.
As Eddie Roschak
The Gambler
As One
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
As Mel
Loverboy
As Harry Bruckner
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
As Detective Merchant (uncredited)
Gangster Story
As Norm (uncredited)
Horseplayer
As George Samsa
Blood and Lace
As Calvin Carruthers
The Don Is Dead
As Ralph Negri
Weekend Warriors
As Sgt. Burdge
Gambit
As Plainclothes Officer at TWA Counter (uncredited)
The Blue Knight
As Neil Grogan
Reel Horror
As Smedke (archive footage)
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
As Capt. Barney Marcus
Portrait of a Stripper
As Harry Parkins
The Underachievers
As Coach
The New Man
As Alan Coombs
The Black Bird
As Warren Finley, Police Lieutenant
Little Ladies of the Night
As Finch
Surftide 77
As Arms Cooper
The Jesse Owens Story
As Abe Saperstein
Emperor of the North
As Yardman
Mysterious Two
As Ted Randall
The Choirboys
As Zoony
Treasure Island
As Silver
Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers
As Lou
Gridlock
As Floyd 'Snake' Kraslowski
They Call It Murder
As Jeff Poland
Criminal Act
As The Exterminator (Greengrass)
Maxie
As Smedke
Through the Magic Pyramid
As Horembeb
Dark Victory
As Archie
The Big Bus
As Goldie
Love with the Proper Stranger
As Cye (uncredited)
This Year's Blonde
As Harry Cohn
Lepke
As Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
The Night the City Screamed
As Morris Brustein
T-Bird Gang
As Policeman
Rage!
As Tommy
Special Delivery
As Wyatt
The Three Kings
As Harold
The Alpha Caper
As Policeman
Partners in Crime
Honor Thy Father
As Don A. Tirello
Murder, She Wrote
As Sal Domino
Alice
As Mel Sharples
Family Affair
CHiPs
Tales from the Darkside
As Tippy Ryan
Star Trek
As Jojo Krako
My World and Welcome to It
Love on a Rooftop
The Rookies
T. J. Hooker
As Pete Benedict
F Troop
The F.B.I.
As Ed Larch
The Love Boat
As Harry Stewart
I Dream of Jeannie
As Turhan
Hawaii Five-O
As Parmel
All in the Family
As Joe Tucker
That Girl
The Streets of San Francisco
Land of the Giants
As Hood
Mannix
Hotel
MacGyver
As George Henderson
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mod Squad
The Bill Cosby Show
As Calvin
Medical Center
Gunsmoke
As Gaines
Bewitched
As Mayor's Chauffeur
Mission: Impossible
As Egan's Goon
Emergency!
As Driver
Cannon
Get Smart
Ironside
Crazy like a Fox
As Mo Scmidt
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As Man Talking to Cab Driver
The Monkees
Khan!
Felony Squad
Vega$
Rawhide
As Monte
Cimarron Strip
Daniel Boone
As American Soldier
Police Story
Switch
As Ralph Kabelka
Lancer
McCloud
Matt Houston
Occasional Wife
Captain Nice
Sweepstakes
Griff
On the Rocks
The Practice
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
The Outsider
Bronk
Time Express
The Mike Douglas Show
As Self
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
As Bernie
Columbo
As Sam Franklin
The Silent Force
As Capt. Al Grant
Finder of Lost Loves
As Thomas Velasco
Barney Miller
As Mr. Stavochek