Farewell Sam
The actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on “The Brady Bunch” has died.
Allan Melvin’s wife says he died of cancer at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. He was 84.
Melvin spent decades playing a series of sidekicks, second bananas and lovable lugs, including Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on “All in the Family,” and Sergeant Bilko’s right-hand man Corporal Henshaw on the “Phil Silvers Show.”
But his place in pop culture may be fixed by his role as butcher and bowler Sam Franklin, the love interest of Brady family maid Alice Nelson.
