William Schallert
Birthday: 6 July 1922, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: William Joseph Schallert
Height: 185 cm
The son of Edwin Schallert, drama editor of the "Los Angeles Times" and the dean of West Coast critics, William Schallert became interested in an acting career while at UCLA in 1942. After g ...Show More
[on Patty Duke] When I think of her, she's family as far as I'm concerned. We had a very close relat Show more
[on Patty Duke] When I think of her, she's family as far as I'm concerned. We had a very close relationship. Whenever I saw her it was like greeting one of my kids. She just had a wonderful quality and I got to know her over the years and she was admirable in a lot of ways. She really did her best to raise her own kids and she certainly had very little help in her own life to do that, but she was very mature and she did a lot of growing up very fast. People take that kind of thing for granted far too easily, and she doesn't get the credit she deserves for that. Hide
[on Patty Duke going public with her bipolar disorder] She was one of the pioneers who stuck her nec Show more
[on Patty Duke going public with her bipolar disorder] She was one of the pioneers who stuck her neck out so to speak to say "here I am" at a time where people didn't do that. She had the courage to do it and she did a lot of good, I think, by doing that and by the rest of her life by example. Hide
William Schallert'S roles