Trivia

Appeared in flashbacks as Estelle Getty's late husband on episodes of Les craquantes (1985).

His father, Isidore Meltzer, was a comedic actor in vaudeville and the Yiddish theater.

His first Hollywood contract was with Lippert in 1949.

Provided long-standing comic relief for Danny Thomas on his classic TV show as Charlie Halper, owner of the Copa Club where Danny performed. Eventually Pat Carroll was added to the cast playing Halper's wife Bunny. Frequently kidding with the press, he told reporters he got the part of Charlie because Sid was the only person Thomas could find that was homelier than he was.

Was a semi-regular on the bucolic sitcom Les arpents verts (1965) as one-half of a bungling brother/sister carpenter team contracted to fix Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor's dilapidated farmhouse. Sid played Alf Monroe and Mary Grace Canfield played his sister Ralph.

Is interred at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California.

Younger brother of screenwriter Lewis Meltzer.

Melton recalls the beginnings of his career, and discusses the movie, Lost Continent (1951), in the book, "A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde" (McFarland & Co., 2010), by Tom Weaver.

He was a lifelong Democrat.