* Melvin " Mel " Cooley ( Richard Deacon ) – the balding producer of The Alan Brady Show ( and Brady's brother-in-law ), who is constantly at odds with Buddy, who often makes insulting comments about Mel's baldness, to which Mel often responds with a simple " Yechh!

During its six season run, many familiar actors guest-starred on the show, along with other lesser-known performers who later achieved stardom, among them: John Charles Daly, Elaine Joyce, Gary Dubin, Herbert Anderson, June Foray, Robert Cummings, Sam Edwards, Jerry Van Dyke, J. Pat O ' Malley, Johnny Whitaker, Jesse White, Al Lewis, Gordon Jump, Bernie Kopell, Len Lesser, Bob Hastings, Don Keefer, Don Porter, Alan Hale Jr., Melody Patterson, Rusty Hamer, Regis Toomey, Heather North, Allan Melvin, Parley Baer, Jack Bannon, Rick Lenz, Karen Valentine among many others.

* David Alan Grier – Clyde Houston – Melvin, at first, has no idea how he will be able to produce his film without being shut down.

* VOICES: Norman Alden, Henry Corden, Joan Gerber, Kathy Gori, Virginia Gregg, Bob Holt, Allan Melvin, Don Messick, Alan Oppenheimer, Joe E. Ross, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Jean Vander Pyl, Janet Waldo, Lennie Weinrib, Frank Welker

FT-ICR was invented by Melvin B. Comisarow and Alan G. Marshall at the University of British Columbia.

Before director Melvin Van Peebles had come into the project, the studio had told him that they were planning to cast a white actor like Alan Arkin or Jack Lemmon to play the part, but that it didn't seem to work quite right.

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

* Grandmaster Melle Mel, Melvin Glover ( born 1961 ), hip-hop musician

Melvin Douglas " Mel " Lastman ( born March 9, 1933 ), nicknamed " Mayor Mel ", is a former businessman and politician.

Melvin Eugene " Mel " Carnahan ( February 11, 1934 – October 16, 2000 ) was an American politician.

Melvin Emery " Mel " Patton ( born November 16, 1924 ) is an American track and field athlete, who won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Mel Powell ( born Melvin Epstein ) ( February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998 ) was an American jazz pianist, composer of classical music, and music educator.

Mel Powell was born Melvin D. Epstein on February 12, 1923 in The Bronx, New York City to Russian Jewish parents, Milton Epstein and Mildred Mark Epstein ,.

Melvin " Mel " Powell died at his home in Sherman Oaks, California on April 24, 1998, after a battle with liver cancer.

Melvin Whinfield " Peerless Mel " Sheppard ( September 5, 1883 – January 4, 1942 ) was an American athlete, member of the Irish American Athletic Club and winner of four gold medals at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.

It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Robert Clary, Carol Lawrence, Ronny Graham, performer / writer Mel Brooks ( as Melvin Brooks ), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick.

Melvin Lacy " Mel " Renfro ( born December 30, 1941 in Houston, Texas ) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League who spent his entire fourteen-year career with the Dallas Cowboys.

Melvin " Mel " Pender, Jr. ( born October 31, 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia ) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

* Mele Mel ( born Melvin Glover in 1961 ), hip-hop musician and songwriter

* Melvin Purvis ( 1903-1960 ), American law enforcement official nicknamed " Little Mel "

* Melvin Kaminsky ( born 1926 ), given name of actor Mel Brooks

* Melvin ( Mel ) S. Narol, foremost authority on legal rights of sports officials

Melle Mel (; born Melvin Glover, May 15, 1961 ), also known as Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Born in The Bronx, New York, The Kidd Creole ( aka Nathaniel Glover Jr .) and his brother Mele Mel ( aka Melvin Glover ) joined up with the late Keith Cowboy ( aka Robert Keith Wiggins ) in 1975 to form the Three Emcees, with Grandmaster Flash ( aka Joseph Saddler ) as the group's DJ.

This group included ( but was not necessarily limited to ): Arthur Wright ( bass ), Pete Fox ( guitar ), Streamline Ewing ( trombone ), Herman Riley ( tenor sax ), Jackie Kelso ( tenor sax ), Melvin Jernigan ( tenor sax ), Mel Brown ( guitar ), Abraham Mills ( drums ).

Lonnie Melvin Tillis ( born August 8, 1932 ), known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer.

Leon Max Lederman ( born July 15, 1922 ) is an American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint research on neutrinos.

Gardner was born in the big farming community of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children ( she had two brothers, Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters, Beatrice, Elsie Mae, Inez, and Myra ).

Melvin Lawrence DeFleur ( born April 27, 1923 in Portland, Oregon ) is a professor and scholar in the field of communications.

Melvin Robert " Bom " Laird ( born September 1, 1922 ) is an American politician and writer.

* Melvin O. Adams, lawyer for Lizzie Borden, was born in Ashburnham.

* Melvin Mora ( born 1972 ), Venezuelan professional baseball player

Francis Melvin Rogallo ( January 27, 1912 – September 1, 2009 ) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U. S. A .; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or " flexible wing ", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider.

Roberts was born in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, the fifth and youngest child of the Reverend Ellis Melvin Roberts and Claudius Priscilla Roberts ( née Irwin ) ( d. 1974 ).

* Melvin Bernhardt ( born 1941 ), American stage and television director

Taymor was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elizabeth ( née Bernstein ), a political science teacher, and Melvin Lester Taymor, a gynecologist.

Melvin " Block " Van Peebles ( born August 21, 1932 ) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer.

Lee was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Elvira ( née Taft ), a teacher, and C. Melvin Lee, an engineer.

Melvin Howard Tormé was born in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents, whose surname had been Torma.

Melvin Parker ( born June 7, 1944, Kinston, North Carolina ) is a drummer.

Boswell was born in Harrison County, Missouri, the son of Margaret and Melvin Boswell.

Farmer was born in Seattle, to Ernest Melvin Farmer and Cora Lillian ( Van Ornum ) Farmer.

Allen was born Melvin Allen Israel in Birmingham, Alabama.

The group formerly known as The Charlemagnes took on the name " The Blue Notes " in 1954, with a lineup consisting of lead singer Harold Melvin ( born June 25, 1939, in Philadelphia, died March 24, 1997 ), Bernard Williams, Roosevelt Brodie, Jesse Gillis, Jr., and Franklin Peaker.

Coleman was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Mary Wharton ( née Johns ) and Melvin Randolph Coleman.

Valentine Esegragbo Melvin Strasser was born on April 26, 1967 in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to parents from the Creole ethnic group.