{{short description|American television actor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = William Kendis |image = Man with a Camera (Six Faces of Satan) scene.jpg |caption = Kendis (left) with Eve McVeagh in ''Man with a Camera'', 1958 |birth_name = William Kaleviano<ref name="a">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87015426/william-kendis/|title=William Kendis|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 30, 1980|access-date=October 13, 2021|page=23|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref> |birth_date = {{birth date|1916|05|27}} |birth_place = New Hampshire, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1980|12|17|1916|05|27}} |death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. |occupation = Television actor |years_active = 1955–1967 }}
'''William Kaleviano''' (May 27, 1916 – December 17, 1980) was an American television actor. He was known for playing the recurring role of Emmett Hughes in the American private detective television series ''Michael Shayne'' and was also known for playing bus driver Olmstead in the episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" of the American anthology television series ''The Twilight Zone''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_Z1DwAAQBAJ|title=Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination|page=243|first=Nicholas|last=Parisi|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|date=October 24, 2018|isbn=9781496819451|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/Decision.htm |title=Decision |website=ctva.com |publisher=CTVA – The Classic TV Archive |access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref>
Kendis guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''Gunsmoke'' (as Carey Post),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWVZAAAAMAAJ|title=Western and Frontier Film and Television Credits 1903-1995: Section I. Actors and actresses. Section II. Directors, producers, and writers|page=537|first=Harris|last=Lentz|publisher=McFarland|date=1996|isbn=9780786401581 |via=Google Books}}</ref> ''Perry Mason'' (as murder victim Walter Prescott),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmX_mIf32TAC|title=Raymond Burr: A Film, Radio and Television Biography|page=435|first=Ona|last=Hill|publisher=McFarland|date=September 9, 2011|isbn=9780786491377|via=Google Books}}</ref> ''Colgate Theatre'', ''The Rifleman'', ''The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin'', ''Decision'', ''Bewitched'', ''The Detectives'', ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Bachelor Father'', ''Family Affair'', ''The Flying Nun'', ''Leave it to Beaver'' and ''Peter Gunn''.
Kendis died on December 17, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 64.<ref name="a" />
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