Parley Baer, 88, a character actor who was the mayor on The Andy Griffith Show, the voice of the Keebler cookie elf in TV commercials and the voice of Chester on radio's Gunsmoke, died of a stroke Friday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif.

The jowly, balding actor appeared in more than 50 movies, including 1950s Westerns and 1963's Gypsy. He played the Senate majority leader in the 1993 movie Dave.

Mr. Baer also made scores of TV appearances, and was Darby, Ozzie Nelson's next-door neighbor, on TV's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.