Career
Dino Papparelli and was a regular on McHale"s Navy as Harrison "Tinker" Bell. He has also made guest-starring roles on many other television series, including Carolina 54, Where Are You?, All in the Family, Here"s Lucy, Happy Days, and The Odd Couple. Sands also appears in one of the opening scenes of Rocky as a booker for the fighters.
He was born William F. Sands in Bergen, New York to John F. & Dana A. Sands.
Sands began his professional career in 1946 when he appeared on Broadway with Spencer Tracy in Robert Sherwood"s "Rugged "
He died from lung cancer at the age of 73 while at University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on August 27, 1984. He is buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.