Modified On January 20, 2007
According to the (low-bandwidth) UPI obit, Ron Carey was also “a former stand-up comic, (who) broke into films playing a cab driver in ‘The Out of Towners.'” The Male Half recalls that Carey’s Officer Levitt was the Barney Miller character that made his old man laugh the hardest. Carey’s was a subtle performance; he had a way with a take and he used his round face to maximum effect.