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Percy Helton began acting as a young child at the age of two, appearing in his father"s vaudeville acting
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He appeared in many Broadway plays as a child actor before joining the United States Army to serve in World War I with the American Expeditionary Forces. The short actor with a hoarse, raspy voice and breathy delivery was a fixture in a wide range of films and television programs in the 1950s and 1960s. Among them were three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Asa Cooperman in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Pathetic Patient".
Helton appeared as the drunken Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street.
He also appeared in Criss Cross (1949), The Secretariat-Up (1949), Kiss Maine Deadly (1955) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He died at age 77 two years after his final film appearance and was entombed at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Los Angeles
