Mel Tormé

Biography: "The velvet fog" was a professional singer at three, a radio personality at four, a published composer at 15, and a film actor at 18. Coming to Hollywood as a drummer in the Chico Marx Band, Mel Tormé made his film debut as a singing/dancing house servant in Higher and Higher (1943). While his celebrity status was assured with his oft-recorded ballad "The Christmas Song," Tormé remained a supporting actor throughout the 1940s in films like Junior Miss (1947) and Good News (1950). His dramatic ability was first tapped in the 1957 Playhouse 90 television drama, The Comedian, in which he played the jellyfish younger brother of dictatorial TV comic Mickey Rooney. Tormé then went on to play a villain in the inexpensive crime flick Girls Town (1957), before reverting to good guy and best friend assignments. Motion pictures have never really been Tormé's priority: he's been too busy writing songs, recording albums, and penning biographies of such contemporaries as Judy Garland and"The velvet fog" was a professional singer at three, a radio personality at four, a published composer at 15, and a film actor at 18. Coming to Hollywood as a drummer in the Chico Marx Band, Mel Tormé made his film debut as a singing/dancing house servant in Higher and Higher (1943). While his celebrity status was assured with his oft-recorded ballad "The Christmas Song," Tormé remained a supporting actor throughout the 1940s in films like Junior Miss (1947) and Good News (1950). His dramatic ability was first tapped in the 1957 Playhouse 90 television drama, The Comedian, in which he played the jellyfish younger brother of dictatorial TV comic Mickey Rooney. Tormé then went on to play a villain in the inexpensive crime flick Girls Town (1957), before reverting to good guy and best friend assignments. Motion pictures have never really been Tormé's priority: he's been too busy writing songs, recording albums, and penning biographies of such contemporaries as Judy Garland and Buddy Rich. In the 1980s, Mel Tormé was a frequent guest star on the TV sitcom Night Court, an offshoot of the well-publicized fact that Tormé was the idol of that series star, Harry Anderson. Expand

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Title: Year: Credit: User score:
tbd Seinfeld: Season 6 Sep 22, 1994 Himself 9.2
tbd Night Court: Season 9 Sep 18, 1991 Himself / Actor / Himself / Mel Torme tbd
tbd Night Court: Season 8 Sep 28, 1990 Angel / Mel Torme tbd
tbd Night Court: Season 7 Sep 27, 1989 Himself / Himself / Mel Torme tbd
tbd Night Court: Season 6 Oct 26, 1988 Himself / Himself / Mel Torme tbd
tbd Night Court: Season 5 Sep 17, 1987 Himself / Himself / Mel Torme tbd
tbd Night Court: Season 4 Oct 2, 1986 Himself / Himself / Mel Torme tbd
tbd Night Court: Season 3 Sep 6, 1985 Himself / Himself / Mel Torme tbd
tbd The Carol Burnett Show: Season 5 Sep 15, 1971 Himself tbd
tbd The Carol Burnett Show: Season 4 Sep 14, 1970 Himself tbd
tbd Love, American Style: Season 1 Sep 29, 1969 Mel Torme / Trevor tbd
tbd The Carol Burnett Show: Season 3 Sep 22, 1969 Himself tbd
tbd The Carol Burnett Show: Season 2 Sep 23, 1968 Himself tbd
tbd The Carol Burnett Show: Season 1 Sep 11, 1967 Himself tbd
tbd The Lucy Show: Season 5 Sep 12, 1966 Mel Torme / Tinker tbd
tbd The Lucy Show: Season 4 Sep 13, 1965 Mel Torme / Tinker tbd