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Cliff Osmond

Acting

Born February 26, 1937 · Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Died December 22, 2012

Also known as Clifford Osman Ebrahim

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cliff Osmond (born February 26, 1937) is an American character actor and television screenwriter most famous for the supporting role of "Barney," Ray Walston's dimwitted songwriting partner, in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid (the comedic song lyrics were actually written by Ira Gershwin). Osmond made more than 86 appearances in TV shows or movies between 1962 and 1996. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cliff Osmond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography38 titles

The Twilight Zone

1959as Manolo

Emergency!

1972

All in the Family

1971as Nick Howard

The Odd Couple

1970as Effram

Hogan's Heroes

1965as Marko

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Kris Karas

Mama's Family

1983

Knight Rider

1982as Jim Courtney

Irma la Douce

1963as Police Sergeant

Starsky & Hutch

1975

The Front Page

1974as Officer Jacobi

The Six Million Dollar Man

1974as Sheriff Bob Kemp

Batman

1966as Andante

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Kojak

1973as Gino

The Fortune Cookie

1966as Purkey

The Rifleman

1958

Police Story

1973

Kiss Me, Stupid

1964as Barney Milsap

How the West Was Won

1962as Bartender (uncredited)

Hart to Hart

1979as Vasquez

CHiPs

1977as Michael

The Rookies

1972

Ironside

1967

Land of the Giants

1968as Grotius

Here's Lucy

1968as Jake

Gunsmoke

1955as Tom Macomb

The North Avenue Irregulars

1979as Big Chin

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

1979as Wes Hardin

Movin' On

Oklahoma Crude

1973as Massive Man

Incident at Crestridge

1981as Bill McLaren

Sharks' Treasure

1975as Lobo

Hangar 18

1980as Sheriff Barlow

The Devil's Eight

1969as Bubba

The Raiders

1963as Private Jean Duchamps

Invasion of the Bee Girls

1973as Captain Peters

Sweet Sugar

1972as Burgos