Arnold Stang
Biography
Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) was an American comic actor who played a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type. One of the most arresting facts about Arnold Stang is that he is perfectly happy with the role of Gerard on NBC's Henry Morgan Show. Unlike many actors and comedians who have climbed to fame with one particular role, Stang isn't afraid of becoming "typed." The small, economy-size, Arnold twenty-eight-year-old comic, who has been likened to a near-sighted chipmunk dragged out of the rain, has dispensed laughs on shows with many top comedians; yet every time he appears on a new television show, he points out with dismay, both the critics and the public "suddenly recognize me as 'fresh new talent.' Stang's career in show business began at a radio audition when he was eleven. Wearing heavy horn-rimmed eyeglasses and speaking in a voice somewhere between a quaver and a croak, Arnold began a serious recitation for the directors. They could not take him seriously. When they had recovered from spasms of laughter, they signed him up on the spot for a comic role, a "type" of role which Stang has been handling ever since.
Known For
Sparrow
The Man with the Golden Arm
Herman
A Bicep Built for Two
Herman
Mousieur Herman
Herman
Cat In The Act
Herman
From Mad to Worse
Turtle (voice)
Land of Lost Watches
Jimmy (uncredited)
My Sister Eileen
Harry
Skidoo
(voice)
Wrong Way Kid
Shorty (voice)
The Marry-Go-Round
Fred Firmwing (voice)
No Man's Valley
Katie Bunny The Sailor
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Peewee
Dondi
Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Top Cat (voice)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Bird (voice)
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Rumpelstiltskin
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Mini-Munsters
Bitsy Slater
Seven Days' Leave
Bernard
Two Gals and a Guy
The turtle (voice)
The Fourth King
Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
Moving Aweigh
Pretzie
Hercules in New York
The Voice of the Turkey
Jubal A. Bristol
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Mr. Cohen
Ghost Dad
Ray
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Herman (voice)
Cheese Burglar
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Saved by the Bell
It's Only Muscle
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Self
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Queasy (voice)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure!
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Herman (voice)
Naughty But Mice
Western Union Clerk
So This Is New York
Photographer
Dennis the Menace
Jonah
Hello Down There
The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Prince Charming (voice)
Slippery Slippers
Wolf (voice)
Kooky Loopy
Fatso
Beau Ties
Chet Carson
Let's Go Steady
Harv
Norman's Corner
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Owly to Bed
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Herman the Catoonist
Churchy LaFemme (voice)
I Go Pogo
Frankie
Three Men on a Horse
Blackie
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
49
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-09-28
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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