Out of Jimmy's Head

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Field Trips, Permission Slips, Signs, and Weasels

Art School Confidential

Imaginary Heroes

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

Joey

Intolerable Cruelty

Andy Richter Controls the Universe

Revenge

Mutilations

Dixie Dynamite

The Thing with Two Heads

Chain Gang Women

The Scavengers

Invitation to Ruin

Get Smart

Angel's Flight

Vengeance

The Miracle Worker

A Face in the Crowd

John Bliss (October 8, 1930 – February 28, 2008) was an American actor known for playing the role of the 8th grade Social Studies teacher and former Principal Irving Pal on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. He was also seen in the first episode of Out of Jimmy's Head. He fondly remembered George Clooney, and how George was so polite and called him "Mr. Bliss" and offered him food on the set of Intolerable Cruelty, in which they both appeared.
Bliss played Mr. Pickering in the TV series Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
He guest starred as a character called Emile in an episode of TV series Get Smart called Bronzefinger.
Bliss was born to acting parents in Peoria, Illinois, but moved from time to time (Florida, New York, Europe). When he was a child, acting on the stage with his parents, they rarely told others of their true profession of acting, because it was "looked down upon in those days." 
In the 1950s, Bliss appeared on Studio One, Playhouse 90 and Kraft Theater 
Bliss died on February 28, 2008, from complications of aortic aneurysm. He was 77.



John Bliss