William Gerald "Jerry" Paris (July 25, 1925 – March 31, 1986) was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
| Full Name | Jerry Paris |
| Net Worth | $18 Million |
| Date Of Birth | July 25, 1925 |
| Died | March 31, 1986, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Height | 6' 1½" (1.87 m) |
| Occupation | Actor, Director |
| Profession | Actor, Film director, Film producer, Television Director, Television producer |
| Education | New York University |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Ruth Benjamin |
| Children | Andrew Paris, Julie Paris, Tony Paris |
| Parents | Milton Grossman, Esther Mohr |
| Nicknames | Jerry Paris, Paris, Jerry |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0661577 |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series |
| Nominations | DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television |
| Movies | Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Marty, The Caine Mutiny, Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, Viva Max!, Never a Dull Moment, The Grasshopper, How Sweet It Is!, Star Spangled Girl, Evil Roy Slade, The Naked and the Dead, Zero Hour!, D-Day the Sixth o... |
| TV Shows | The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Untouchables, Michael Shayne |
| Star Sign | Leo |
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| 1 | My trouble as an actor was twofold, I was too tall, and I wasn't handsome enough. Richard Widmark wanted me in a couple of movies, and they told him I was too tall; I'd make him look short. Widmark said what the hell, we can dig a hole. And I remember I was Robert Taylor's roommate in D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), and I had to sit down all the time. Yeah. I remember the scene where I was leaving, and I was supposed to bid him goodbye. The director told me to sit on the bed. What's this? I said. I'm leaving, and I'm sitting on the bed? The director says, "Give him a can of beer or something. He can be drinking a can of beer, and then we cut to him outside the door". |
| 2 | You name it. I was the co-pilot, the best friend, the roommate, the army buddy. In three movies I was second banana to Bonzo the monkey. Remember Bonzo? He was the number- one monkey in Hollywood, bigger even than Cheetah the Chimp, until he was killed in a tragic fire. Let's see. I was in Bonzo Goes to College (1952), and in Monkey Business (1952), and another one. Monkey Business (1952) also had Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant but, as I recall, Bonzo got equal billing. Bonzo had a trainer who started to talk as if he were the monkey. Hell, the monkey was making the money. One day the trainer tells me I have a part in Bonzo's next picture because Bonzo likes me. Can you imagine that? Getting the part because the monkey likes you?. |
| 3 | [on unnecessary violence in motion pictures] There have been violent pictures that were masterpieces. I think of pictures like Gone with the Wind (1939), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), "The Battle of Algiers" [aka The Battle of Algiers (1966)]) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). These pictures knew how to employ violence. I took my kid to see "Gone with the Wind", and the scene where the street is filled with dying soldiers, she found tremendously moving. But, then, she went to see Point Blank (1967)--I wouldn't have let her but, somehow, she went without me realizing what kind of movie it was--and here was all this brutality, shooting, torture. What does it mean in a context like that? |
| 4 | [on becoming a film director] At last I can paint the whole canvas. How's that for a figure of speech, eh? When I was a character actor, I was painting only one color--blue or green, as it were. Now I can work on the whole movie. |
| 5 | [on the difficulties of being a tall actor] You ever see a picture called The Flying Missile (1950)? I was in it, and Glenn Ford starred. We were on a submarine, and I was looking out of the periscope all the time. Only it would look bad if we had to lower the periscope for Ford after I finished looking out of it. So I spent the whole picture crouched over. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| You Again? | 1986 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| Police Academy 3: Back in Training | 1986 | | |
| Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | 1985 | | |
| Happy Days | 1974-1984 | TV Series 237 episodes | |
| Leo and Loree | 1980 | | |
| Make Me an Offer | 1980 | TV Movie | |
| Beane's of Boston | 1979 | TV Movie | |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1979 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Sister Terri | 1978 | TV Movie | |
| The Ted Knight Show | 1978 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Best Friends | 1977 | TV Movie | |
| Blansky's Beauties | 1977 | TV Series 8 episodes | |
| How to Break Up a Happy Divorce | 1976 | TV Movie | |
| Good Heavens | 1976 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Laverne & Shirley | 1976 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| When Things Were Rotten | 1975 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| The Fireman's Ball | 1975 | TV Movie | |
| Karen | 1975 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| The Odd Couple | 1970-1975 | TV Series 18 episodes | |
| Paper Moon | 1974 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| Only with Married Men | 1974 | TV Movie | |
| McCloud | 1974 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| The New Dick Van Dyke Show | 1973-1974 | TV Series 7 episodes | |
| ABC Late Night | 1973 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Thicker Than Water | 1973 | TV Series 9 episodes | |
| Break Up | 1973 | TV Movie | |
| Help, Inc. | 1972 | TV Movie | |
| Every Man Needs One | 1972 | TV Movie | |
| The Couple Takes a Wife | 1972 | TV Movie | |
| Keeping Up with the Joneses | 1972 | TV Movie | |
| Wednesday Night Out | 1972 | TV Movie | |
| Evil Roy Slade | 1972 | TV Movie | |
| Call Her Mom | 1972 | TV Movie | |
| Star Spangled Girl | 1971 | | |
| What's a Nice Girl Like You...? | 1971 | TV Movie | |
| Mary Tyler Moore | 1971 | TV Series 3 episodes | |
| Two on a Bench | 1971 | TV Movie | |
| Cat Ballou | 1971/I | TV Movie | |
| The Feminist and the Fuzz | 1971 | TV Movie | |
| The Partridge Family | 1970 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| Barefoot in the Park | 1970 | TV Series 3 episodes | |
| But I Don't Want to Get Married! | 1970 | TV Movie | |
| Here's Lucy | 1970 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| The Grasshopper | 1970 | | |
| Love, American Style | 1969-1970 | TV Series 3 episodes | |
| Viva Max | 1969 | | |
| How Sweet It Is! | 1968 | | |
| Never a Dull Moment | 1968 | | |
| Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River | 1968 | | |
| Dick Van Dyke | 1968 | TV Special | |
| Sheriff Who | 1967 | TV Movie | |
| Hey, Landlord | 1966-1967 | TV Series 5 episodes | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | 1963-1966 | TV Series 84 episodes | |
| Tammy | 1965 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| The Munsters | 1965 | TV Series 3 episodes | |
| The Bill Dana Show | 1963-1965 | TV Series 6 episodes | |
| That Girl | 1965 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1964 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| The Farmer's Daughter | 1964 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Police Academy 3: Back in Training | 1986 | | Priest in Police Line-up (uncredited) |
| Happy Days | 1975-1983 | TV Series | Professor / Doctor / Photographer / ... |
| Leo and Loree | 1980 | | Tony |
| Paper Moon | 1974 | TV Series | |
| Every Man Needs One | 1972 | TV Movie | Marty Ranier |
| Evil Roy Slade | 1972 | TV Movie | Souvenir Salesman (uncredited) |
| Love, American Style | 1970 | TV Series | Dr. Paul Meltz (segment "Love and the Psychiatrist") |
| But I Don't Want to Get Married! | 1970 | TV Movie | Harry |
| Never a Dull Moment | 1968 | | Police Photographer (uncredited) |
| Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River | 1968 | | Baseball Umpire |
| That Girl | 1965-1966 | TV Series | The Director |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | 1961-1966 | TV Series | Jerry Helper / Jack Sullivan / TV Newsman / ... |
| The Fugitive | 1963 | TV Series | Jim Prestwick |
| The Eleventh Hour | 1963 | TV Series | Marty Kane |
| The Caretakers | 1963 | | Passerby Lorna Bumps on Street (uncredited) |
| 77 Sunset Strip | 1961-1963 | TV Series | Jay Breacher / Tom Gardiner |
| Death Valley Days | 1962 | TV Series | Emmanuel Gruber |
| Hawaiian Eye | 1962 | TV Series | Martin Short |
| The Lloyd Bridges Show | 1962 | TV Series | Pete |
| Ben Casey | 1962 | TV Series | Mr. Tarlow |
| 87th Precinct | 1962 | TV Series | Douglas Masters |
| General Electric Theater | 1962 | TV Series | Larry Grossblatt |
| The Detectives | 1962 | TV Series | Michael Hearn |
| Cain's Hundred | 1961 | TV Series | Harry White |
| Michael Shayne | 1960-1961 | TV Series | Tim Rourke |
| The Great Impostor | 1961 | | Defense Lieutenant |
| Startime | 1960 | TV Series | Grimes |
| The Alaskans | 1960 | TV Series | Walter Collier |
| The Untouchables | 1959-1960 | TV Series | Agent Martin Flaherty Martin Flaherty |
| Career | 1959 | | Allan Burke |
| Markham | 1959 | TV Series | Paul Stevens |
| Steve Canyon | 1959 | TV Series | Maj. 'Willie' Williston |
| No Name on the Bullet | 1959 | | Harold Miller |
| Pursuit | 1958 | TV Series | |
| Sugarfoot | 1958 | TV Series | Cully Abbott |
| The Naked and the Dead | 1958 | | Goldstein |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1956-1958 | TV Series | Fred Piper / Wally Benson |
| Sing Boy Sing | 1958 | | Arnold Fisher |
| The Female Animal | 1958 | | Hank Galvez (not Lopez) |
| Colt .45 | 1958 | TV Series | Joe Bullock |
| The Silent Service | 1957 | TV Series | O'Kane / Capt. Richard O'Kane |
| The Lady Takes a Flyer | 1957 | | Willie Ridgely |
| Man on the Prowl | 1957 | | Woody |
| Zero Hour! | 1957 | | Tony Decker |
| Telephone Time | 1957 | TV Series | |
| The George Sanders Mystery Theater | 1957 | TV Series | Howard |
| Those Whiting Girls | 1957 | TV Series | Artie the Accompanist / Artie |
| Playhouse 90 | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Chevak |
| Code 3 | 1957 | TV Series | Dep. Sheriff Stitts |
| Matinee Theatre | 1957 | TV Series | |
| The Millionaire | 1957 | TV Series | Robert R. 'Bob' Fielding |
| The 20th Century-Fox Hour | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Joe Elliot / Ferguson |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1957 | TV Series | |
| Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal | 1957 | TV Series | Doctor |
| Hey, Jeannie! | 1956 | TV Series | Joe Grady |
| Navy Log | 1956 | TV Series | Al / J. Gish |
| You Are There | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Sailor / Newsman |
| I've Lived Before | 1956 | | Russell Smith, Copilot |
| Big Town | 1956 | TV Series | |
| D-Day the Sixth of June | 1956 | | Raymond Boyce |
| The Bob Cummings Show | 1956 | TV Series | Capt. Henry Barnes |
| Chevron Hall of Stars | 1956 | TV Series | |
| TV Reader's Digest | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Charles Sussman / Associate Surgeon |
| Never Say Goodbye | 1956 | | Joe |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Richard / Charlie Harris |
| Crusader | 1956 | TV Series | Barney |
| Celebrity Playhouse | 1955 | TV Series | Bill Feldman |
| Hell's Horizon | 1955 | | Cpl. Pete Kinshaw |
| Good Morning, Miss Dove | 1955 | | Maurice Levine |
| The View from Pompey's Head | 1955 | | Ian Garrick |
| Crossroads | 1955 | TV Series | Cpl. Reynolds |
| The Naked Street | 1955 | | Latzi Franks |
| Front Row Center | 1955 | TV Series | Mark Eisen |
| Not as a Stranger | 1955 | | Thompson (uncredited) |
| Damon Runyon Theater | 1955 | TV Series | |
| Marty | 1955 | | Tommy |
| Unchained | 1955 | | Joe Ravens |
| The Lone Wolf | 1954 | TV Series | Paul |
| About Mrs. Leslie | 1954 | | Mr. Harkness (uncredited) |
| The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | | Ens. Barney Harding |
| Prisoner of War | 1954 | | Axel Horstrom |
| Your Favorite Story | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Drive a Crooked Road | 1954 | | Phil |
| The Ford Television Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | Ed Hunnicutt / Eddie Nigh |
| The Wild One | 1953 | | Dextro (uncredited) |
| Flight to Tangier | 1953 | | Policeman in Car (uncredited) |
| Sabre Jet | 1953 | | Capt. Bert Flanagan |
| Fireside Theatre | 1953 | TV Series | |
| The Glass Wall | 1953 | | Tom |
| The Web | 1953 | TV Series | Frank Nelson |
| Dragnet | 1952 | TV Series | Jack Blaine |
| Bonzo Goes to College | 1952 | | Lefty Edwards |
| Monkey Business | 1952 | | Scientist (uncredited) |
| Out There | 1951 | TV Series | |
| Submarine Command | 1951 | | Sgt. Gentry |
| Starlight Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | Otis |
| Her First Romance | 1951 | | Camp Counsellor (uncredited) |
| Bright Victory | 1951 | | Reynolds, the Medic (uncredited) |
| Call Me Mister | 1951 | | Air Force Pilot in Skit (uncredited) |
| Frenchie | 1950 | | Perry (uncredited) |
| The Flying Missile | 1950 | | Crewman Andy Mason |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 1950 | | Cadet |
| Outrage | 1950 | | Frank Marini |
| The Reformer and the Redhead | 1950 | | Radio Station Call Boy (uncredited) |
| D.O.A. | 1950 | | Bellhop (uncredited) |
| Woman in Hiding | 1950 | | Customer at Newsstand (uncredited) |
| My Foolish Heart | 1949 | | Usher at Football Game |
| Battleground | 1949 | | German Sergeant (uncredited) |
| Sword in the Desert | 1949 | | Levitan (uncredited) |
| The Lady Gambles | 1949 | | Horse Player (uncredited) |
$18 Million
