Arnold Stang
Acting
- Born:
- 1918-09-28
- Died:
- 2009-12-20
- Place of birth:
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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
Filmography
The Broad Side
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Mr. Men and Little Miss
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
The Pink Panther
Dennis the Menace
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
Fender Bender 500
Ghost Dad
Norman's Corner
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Tales from the Darkside
The Cosby Show
Reading Rainbow
Wrong Way Kid
No Man's Valley
I Go Pogo
The Fourth King
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Misterjaw
Chico and the Man
The Mini-Munsters
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Emergency!
Hercules in New York
Hello Down There
Skidoo
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Batman
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Broadside
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Slippery Slippers
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Mike Douglas Show
Kooky Loopy
Top Cat
Dondi
Katnip's Big Day
Bonanza
Owly to Bed
Wagon Train
From Mad to Worse
Three Men on a Horse
Cat In The Act
The Steve Allen Show
The Man with the Golden Arm
Mousieur Herman
Hollywood Preview
A Bicep Built for Two
December Bride
Herman the Catoonist
Of Mice and Magic
Doc Corkle
The Name's the Same
Two Gals and a Guy
Land of Lost Watches
The Voice of the Turkey
Saved by the Bell
The Colgate Comedy Hour
It's Only Muscle
The Bob Hope Show
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
What's My Line?
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Ed Sullivan Show
Texaco Star Theater
So This Is New York
Naughty But Mice
Cheese Burglar
A Lamb in a Jam
Beau Ties
Let's Go Steady
Moving Aweigh
The Marry-Go-Round
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
Seven Days' Leave
My Sister Eileen