Allan Melvin commercials for fifteen years. In the early 1980s, Melvin appeared as a regular in "Archie Bunker’s Place", a successor to "All in the Family", in which he played the now more important role of Barney Hefner. When this series ended in 1983, Melvin’s work was exclusively devoted to cartoon voice-overs. Allan Melvin died of cancer on January 17, 2008, aged 84, and was buried at Westwood Memorial Cemetery in Southern California. Melvin is buried just yards from his TV best friend Carroll O'Connor, who played 'Archie Bunker' in TV's "All In The Family". Coincidentally, later the same year, famed 1950s
Parsley Sidings Mr J.G. Reeder, starring Hugh Burden. It was broadcast between 1969 and 1971. Parsley Sidings Parsley Sidings is a BBC Radio sitcom created by Jim Eldridge. It stars Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender (who also starred in the television wartime sitcom "Dad's Army" at that time), together with Kenneth Connor from the "Carry On" films. The scripts are by Jim Eldridge (who would later go on to write for many more series, the most successful being the BBC's "King Street Junior"). The show is set in a sleepy out of the way railway station on the main line between London