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Stuart Nisbet’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

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Emily Carr

Updated on January 04, 2026

IntroAmerican actor
WasActor 
Television actor 
FromUnited States of America 
TypeFilm, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gendermale
Birth17 January 1934, Los Angeles
Death23 June 2016
(aged 82 years)

Stuart Nisbet (January 17, 1934 – June 23, 2016) was an American character actor and former President of the Nesbitt/Nisbet Society of North America.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Nisbet studied theater at Los Angeles City College and California State University, Los Angeles.
Nisbet guest-starred on the television shows Mama’s Family; Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law; Little House on the Prairie; Quincy M.E.; Three’s Company; McMillan & Wife; Emergency!; The Rockford Files; Kolchak: The Night Stalker; Happy Days; Adam-12; Columbo; Cannon; Mannix; Night Gallery; Bonanza; Laredo, McCloud; The Partridge Family; Love, American Style; The Name of the Game; Dragnet; Get Smart; Mayberry R.F.D.; The Wild Wild West; The Monkees; Dundee and the Culhane, Mission: Impossible; Bewitched; My Three Sons; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; The Fugitive; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; The Munsters; Dennis the Menace (as Mr. Wade), and “The Dukes Of Hazzard.”

Death

Nisbet died June 23, 2016, at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California. He was 82. He was survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.

Filmography

  • Third of a Man (1962) – (uncredited)
  • The Quick and the Dead (1963)
  • For Pete’s Sake (1966)
  • Hot Rods to Hell (1967) – Surgeon (uncredited)
  • The Ride to Hangman’s Tree (1967) – Russell (uncredited)
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967) – Shuie
  • Games (1967) – Detective
  • Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) – Man of the Cloth
  • The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968) – Man Going Upstairs (uncredited)
  • Angel in My Pocket (1969) – Sheriff
  • Love Is a Funny Thing (1969) – (uncredited)
  • How to Frame a Figg (1971) – Gentry Groat
  • The Loners (1972) – Bridegroom
  • Slither (1973) – Buddy
  • The Mad Bomber (1973) – Attorney
  • Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973) – Dr. Claymore
  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) – Couple at Station
  • The Law (1974) – Lieutenant Norland
  • Earthquake (1974) – Loudspeaker Voice (voice, uncredited)
  • The Missiles of October (1974) – Reporter
  • Hearts of the West (1975) – Lucky
  • Oh, God! (1977) – Doorman (uncredited)
  • Mr. Too Little (1978) – Missionary Worker
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) – Veterinarian
  • Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994) – Anchor Person
  • Murder in the First (1995) – Harve
  • Casino (1995) – LA Banker
  • Reid, John Howard (2005). Hollywood’s Miracles of Entertainment. Lulu.com. pp. 10–12. ISBN 9781411635227. Retrieved 22 November 2014.