John Fiedler

This stage-trained veteran character player has had a long and varied career playing mousy little men in films and TV since the late 1940s. Short, plump, often bespectacled and perpetually balding, Fiedler has a look that defies the ravages of time. Somehow never truly young, he could never really grow old.

Fiedler could just have easily played many of his 50s roles in the 70s and vice versa. Often ridiculous or flustered, he segues smoothly …