He was a very familiar face in movies and on television during the 1940s 50s and 60s He was usually seen playing an intellectual a good friend or a snob in such films as The Incredible Mr Limpet with Don Knotts When Worlds Collide Monkey Business with Cary Grant The Eddie Duchin Story with Tyrone Power and Daddy Long Legs He is probably best rememered as Harry Morton 195358 on the George Burns Gracie Allen Show and as the stuffy Roger Addison next door neighbor of Mr Ed produced by George Burns McCadden Productions