Appeared in flashbacks as Estelle Getty's late husband on episodes of "The Golden Girls" (1985).
Debuted on stage in 1939 in a touring production of "See My Lawyer" and appeared on Broadway in 1947 in "The Magic Touch".
His father, Isidore Meltzer, was a comedic actor in vaudeville and the Yiddish theater.
Is interred at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.
Melton recalls the beginnings of his career, and discusses the movie Lost Continent (1951), in the book "A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde" (McFarland & Co., 2010) by Tom Weaver.
Provided long-standing comic relief for Danny Thomas on his classic TV show as Charlie Halper, owner of the Copa Club where Danny performed. Eventually Pat Carroll was added to the cast playing Halper's wife Bunny. Frequently kidding with the press, he told reporters he got the part of Charlie because Sid was the only person Thomas could find that was homelier than he was.
Was a semi-regular on the bucolic sitcom "Green Acres" (1965) as one-half of a bungling brother/sister carpenter team contracted to fix Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor's dilapidated farmhouse. Sid played Alf Monroe and Mary Grace Canfield played his sister Ralph.
Younger brother of screenwriter Lewis Meltzer.