Career
He frequently played background parts such as policemen or bartenders. In 1949, Cisar co-starred with a young Mike Wallace in the short-lived police drama Stand By for Crime. Among Cisar"s more frequent roles was from 1960 to 1963 as Sergeant
Theodore Mooney in thirty-one episodes of Columbia Broadcasting System"s Dennis the Menace.
Oddly, series co-star Gale Gordon took the name "Theodore Mooney" and added the middle initial "J." for his character, Theodore J. Mooney, a tough-minded banker on Lucille Ball"s second sitcom, The Lucy Show. Cisar portrayed character Donald Hollinger"s father in That Girl, the Marlo Thomas sitcom which aired on American Broadcasting Company, and Cyrus Tankersley on Columbia Broadcasting System"s The Andy Griffith Show and its sequel Mayberry, Rural Free Delivery
