Bob Hastings

Known for ActingBorn 1925-04-18Died 2014-06-30Brooklyn - New York - USA

Robert "Bob" Francis Hastings (April 18, 1925 – June 30, 2014) was an American radio, film, and television character actor. He also provided voices for animated cartoons. He was best known for his portrayal of annoying suck-up Lt. Elroy Carpenter, on McHale's Navy. Hastings was born in Brooklyn, New York, a son of Charles and Hazel Hastings, Sr. His father was a salesman. Hastings started in radio on "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus" (NBC). Hastings served during World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. After serving in World War II as a navigator on B-29s, he played the role of Archie Andrews in a series based on the Archie comic book series on the NBC Red Network, later just the NBC Radio Network, after NBC divested itself of its Blue Network in 1942. Archie Andrews was sponsored by Swift & Company food products. Hastings moved to television in 1949, performing in early science-fiction series, including Atom Squad. His first recurring role was as a lieutenant onPhil Silvers' Sergeant Bilko series in the late 1950s. At that time he guest-starred on Walter Brennan's ABC sitcom The Real McCoys.Read more

Movies & web series

Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection

Swan Song

Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?

The Tom Ewell Show

Batman: The Animated Series

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

The Crash of Flight 401

The Twilight Zone

The New Batman Adventures

Static Shock

Batman: The Animated Series - The Legend Begins

Emergency!

Superman: The Animated Series

The Munsters

The Odd Couple

All in the Family

I Dream of Jeannie

A Very Missing Person

California Fever

The Wonderful World of Disney

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

Three's Company

Murder, She Wrote

The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

The Rockford Files

Quincy, M.E.

Hogan's Heroes

Thornwell

The Million Dollar Rip-Off

Lou Grant

The Greatest American Hero

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Batman

The Incredible Hulk

Shadow Force

Remington Steele

The Waltons

Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

Car 54, Where Are You?

The Poseidon Adventure

Alice

Jeannie

Green Acres

Father Figure

Adam-12