Emerging from Brooklyn, New York, Kaplan earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Brooklyn College before studying theater at the University of Southern California, laying the groundwork for a versatile performing career. He became widely recognized for portraying the amiable telephone lineman Henry Beesmeyer on the sitcom Alice throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, while earlier voice work… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Wild at Heart 1990 ER 1994 MacGyver 1985 I Dream of Jeannie 1965 Series ★ 7.8 ER 1994
Kornberg's Father Series ★ 7.8 I Dream of Jeannie 1965
Perkins Series ★ 7.7 MacGyver 1985
The Chess Master Series ★ 7.7 Kolchak: The Night Stalker 1974
Delgado Series ★ 7.6 The Fall Guy 1981
Series ★ 7.5 What a Cartoon! 1995
Dave D. Fly (voice) Series ★ 7.5 Top Cat 1961
Choo Choo (voice) Series ★ 7.2 Becker 1998
Mr. Gordon ★ 7.1 The Great Race 1965
Frisbee Series ★ 7.1 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. 1964
Mr. Kendall ★ 7.1 Adam's Rib 1949
Court Stenographer (uncredited) Series ★ 7 Even Stevens 2000
Old Guy #1 ★ 7 Wild at Heart 1990
Uncle Pooch Series ★ 7 Cagney & Lacey 1982
Series ★ 7 Alice 1976
★ 7 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963
Irwin ★ 7 Angels in the Outfield 1951
Timothy Durney Series ★ 6.9 Monsters 1988
Murray Van Pelt ★ 6.8 Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats 1988
Choo-Choo (voice) Series ★ 6.8 CHiPs 1977
Hilmer Nelson Series ★ 6.7 Charlie's Angels 1976
Zobar Series ★ 6.7 McHale's Navy 1962
Kwazniak Series ★ 6.6 My Three Sons 1960
Joe ★ 6.5 The Nutty Professor 1963
English Student Series ★ 6.3 My Two Dads 1987
Series ★ 6.2 Love, American Style 1969
Arnold ★ 6.2 A New Kind of Love 1963
Harry ★ 6.1 Freaky Friday 1976
Carpet Cleaner Series ★ 6.1 The Mod Squad 1968
Sol Alpert Series ★ 5.9 Petticoat Junction 1963
Stanley ★ 5.8 Midnight Madness 1980
Bonaventure Desk Clerk ★ 5.7 Delirious 1991
Typewriter Repairman ★ 4.9 Witchboard 2 1993
Morris ★ 4.9 The Severed Arm 1973
Mad Man Herman ★ 4.6 Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love 1994
