William Schallert is an actor, best known as Mayor Norris on HBO’s True Blood, Roger Wainwright on NBC’s Santa Barbara, Russell ‘Russ’ Lawrence on ESP’s The New Gidget, and Martin Lane/Kenneth Lane/Uncle Jed Lane on ABC’s The Patty Duke Show.

Film credits include Innerspace, Gremlins, Charley Varrick, Colossus: The Forbin Project, In the Heat of the Night, Lonely Are the Brave, Pillow Talk, Some Came Running, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Friendly Persuasion, Written on the Wind, and Singin’ in the Rain.

Theatre credits include John Quincy Watson in The Special Prisoner (Playwrights Theatre), Joshua Maynard in House (Falcon Theatre), Dr. Pangloss/Martin/Storyteller in Candide (Ahmanson Theatre), and the Judge in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Phoenix Theatre).