Dick Cherney
Acting1914Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Biography
Ysaÿe (Isaac) Richard Cherniavsky (6 November 1914–21 October 2017) Cherney was a prolific background actor who, from approximately 1936 to 1976, made over 250 uncredited film and television appearances.
Known For
The Apartment
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Blazing Saddles
Townsman (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone
Man in Bar
Judgment at Nuremberg
Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Bewitched
Photographer (uncredited)
The War of the Worlds
Looter (uncredited)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Detective (uncredited)
Acting History
1976
Family Plot
as Man at Funeral (uncredited)
The Last Tycoon
as Man in Office (uncredited)
Ellery Queen
TVas Auction Guest (uncredited)• 1 eps
1975
At Long Last Love
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
TVas Juror (uncredited)• 1 eps
Harry O
TVas Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)• 1 eps
Police Woman
TVas Casino Patron (uncredited)• 1 eps
Bronk
TVas Party Guest (uncredited) / Conference Guest (uncredited)
1974
Blazing Saddles
as Townsman (uncredited)
Hawkins
TVas Cameraman (uncredited)• 1 eps
1973
The Way We Were
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TVas Audience Member (uncredited)• 1 eps
Kojak
TVas Diamond Cutter (uncredited) / Party Guest (uncredited)• 1 eps
1972
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Bob Newhart Show
TVas Class Member (uncredited)• 1 eps
1971
The Death of Me Yet
as Restaurant Patron
1970
The Doris Day Show
TVas Commuter in Terminal (uncredited) / Restaurant Patron (uncredited) / Exhibit Patron (uncredited) / Executive (uncredited)• 1 eps
Dragnet
TVas Detective (uncredited)• 1 eps
1969
Topaz
as Waiter (uncredited)
The Love God?
as Club Patron (uncredited)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TVas Juror (uncredited)• 1 eps
1968
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Mannix
TVas Gardener (uncredited)• 1 eps
Ironside
TVas Policeman (uncredited)• 1 eps
Mission: Impossible
TVas Guard (uncredited) / Worker (uncredited)• 1 eps
Bewitched
TVas Photographer (uncredited)• 1 eps
Bonanza
TVas Townsman (uncredited)• 1 eps
The Monkees
TVas Commuter (uncredited)• 1 eps
1967
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Fitzwilly
as Bar Patron (uncredited)
Banning
as Match Spectator (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Point Blank
as Spectator (uncredited)
The Invaders
TVas Police Officer (uncredited)• 1 eps
Batman
TVas Stamp Exhibition Spectator (uncredited) / Museum Patron (uncredited)• 1 eps
1966
Torn Curtain
as Clerk (uncredited)
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
as Military Officer (uncredited)
The Virginian
TVas Townsman (uncredited) / Trial Spectator (uncredited) / Investor (uncredited) / Trooper (uncredited)• 1 eps
Get Smart
TVas Party Guest (uncredited) / Man at Pool (uncredited) / Onlooker (uncredited)• 1 eps
1965
Strange Bedfellows
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Two on a Guillotine
as Theatre Audience Member (uncredited)
F Troop
TVas Orderly (uncredited)• 1 eps
The Wild Wild West
TVas Waiter (uncredited)• 1 eps
1964
The Best Man
as Reporter (uncredited)
Roustabout
as Carnival Patron (uncredited)
36 Hours
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Fate Is the Hunter
as Soldier (uncredited)
Seven Days in May
as Reporter (uncredited)
Wagon Train
TVas Townsman (uncredited)• 1 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TVas Agent (uncredited)• 1 eps
1963
Critic's Choice
as Audience Member (uncredited)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Detective (uncredited)
Twilight of Honor
as Townsman (uncredited)
Sam Benedict
TVas Club Patron (uncredited)• 1 eps
Hazel
TVas Townsman at Celebration (uncredited)• 1 eps
1962
Gypsy
as Audience Member (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Thriller
TVas Film Crew Member (uncredited)• 1 eps
Maverick
TVas Casino Patron (uncredited)• 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TVas Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)• 1 eps
87th Precinct
TVas Detective (uncredited)• 1 eps
1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Bachelor in Paradise
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Cheyenne
TVas Wedding Guest (uncredited)• 1 eps
Perry Mason
TVas Court Clerk (uncredited)• 1 eps
Dennis the Menace
TVas Audience Member (uncredited)• 1 eps
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TVas Bartender (uncredited)• 1 eps
The Deputy
TVas Barfly (uncredited)• 1 eps
The Untouchables
TVas Police Officer (uncredited) / Diner Patron (uncredited) / Club Patron (uncredited) / Agent at Briefing (uncredited) / Race Spectator (uncredited) / Bailiff (uncredited) / Intern (uncredited) / Party Guest (uncredited)• 1 eps
1960
Inherit the Wind
as Townsman (uncredited)
The Apartment
as Bar Patron (uncredited)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
as Herman (uncredited)
Sunrise at Campobello
as Crew Member (uncredited)
Cimarron
as Townsman at Celebration (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone
TVas Man in Bar• 1 eps
1959
Warlock
as Townsman (uncredited)
The FBI Story
as FBI Agent (uncredited)
Al Capone
as Moran Associate (uncredited)
Invisible Invaders
as Zombie
1958
The Last Hurrah
as Reporter (uncredited)
Party Girl
as Porter (uncredited)
Bat Masterson
TVas Townsman (uncredited)• 1 eps
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TVas Passerby On Sidewalk (uncredited)
1957
Sweet Smell of Success
as Toots Shor's Patron (uncredited)
The Buster Keaton Story
as Audience Member (uncredited)
1956
Around the World in 80 Days
as Extra (uncredited)
Written on the Wind
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Forever, Darling
as Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Please Murder Me
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Rack
as Judge
1955
It's Always Fair Weather
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1954
It Should Happen to You
as Audience Member (uncredited)
1953
The Band Wagon
as Audience Member (uncredited)
The War of the Worlds
as Looter (uncredited)
Angel Face
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Kiss Me Kate
as Actor in Play (uncredited)
1952
Horizons West
as Barfly (uncredited)
Clash by Night
as Fisherman (uncredited)
1951
An American in Paris
as Spectator at Show (uncredited)
The Racket
as Police Officer (uncredited)
A Place in the Sun
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1950
Young Man with a Horn
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Radio Station Worker (uncredited)
Pretty Baby
as Elevator Starter (uncredited)
Watch the Birdie
as Pedestrian (uncredited)
1948
The Black Arrow
as Villager (uncredited)
1942
My Favorite Spy
as Recruit Smelling Gas
1940
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Beauty Contest Spectator
1939
Charlie Chan in Reno
as Casino Patron (uncredited)
1937
Topper
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)