Name of the drunken waiter

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dpithon — 20 years ago(June 06, 2005 07:26 AM)

What is the name of the drunken waiter ? I do think he is the funniest character of the movie.

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rainbow_unicorn18 — 20 years ago(June 09, 2005 03:02 AM)

i was as curious as you but i found out it is Steve Franken and he plays the character levinson

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Michelle_Johnson101 — 18 years ago(April 11, 2007 02:16 PM)

Best drunk performance of all time(for me that is)

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drwoowoocl — 20 years ago(June 10, 2005 08:38 AM)

The waiter was Steve Franken,whats funny is he usually played snooty stuffed shirt types,like in Dobie Gillis,but he is hilarious here,and I agree that he is the funniest character in the film.

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Hoohawnaynay — 19 years ago(August 01, 2006 01:43 PM)

I've met him, he was a friend of Elizabeth Montgomery and was used on Bewitched a few times as wellhe is funny!

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dchandrika — 19 years ago(October 23, 2006 02:40 PM)

I think Levinson is the character who is the boss of the drunken waiter. I'm not sure they ever mention the nameof the drunken waiter in the movie

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x_chriss — 19 years ago(December 26, 2006 03:01 AM)

Thats right. Levinson is the drunken waiters boss. I would like to know his name too

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eldobro — 19 years ago(January 24, 2007 09:03 AM)

Steve Franken is the waiter. I used to watch Dobie Gillis and he used to play Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. ,the rich kid.

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info-13039 — 18 years ago(May 29, 2007 02:17 PM)

In one of the "Making offs" (double dvd) you can find some statements given by some of the actors so by STEVE FRANKEN. He played "Levinson the drunk waiter" thats a fact

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Robert_Scott — 18 years ago(June 03, 2007 01:54 PM)

I thought I was going to suffocate with laughter after watching this guy's crazy antics. I'd have to say my favorite part was when he was serving the salad- I couldn't stop laughing.

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ecarle — 18 years ago(July 27, 2007 09:06 PM)

Steve Franken is the drunken waiter. If by "his boss," you mean the guy who strangles him again and again, that was a favorite character actor of Blake Edwards named James Lanphier, who worked on a lot of Edwards' "Peter Gunn" shows, and in the first "Pink Panther" with Sellers.
When I first saw the "swinging door/salad scene" as a kid, I indeed almost suffocated on my own laughter. It is Edwards gift that the joke builds and builds and builds and builds, then pays off, then KEEPS paying off. You can't breathe!.
I also think it is interesting that Peter Sellers assented to Edwards' giving this second character such a sizably funny part in the show. Maybe it relieved some of the pressure on Sellers to be the center of all comedy. But he was good, too.
I think the Sellers character is as funny as Inspector Clouseau. I think issues of taste (spoofing an Indian rather than a Frenchman!) ended the prospects for a sequel.

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brucebrod — 12 years ago(October 07, 2013 04:47 PM)

Chatsworth Osborne Jr.!