Name
Arnold Stang
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1918-09-28
Deathday
2009-12-20 (91 years old)
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.
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- 1955 The Man with the Golden Arm as Sparrow
- 1955 A Bicep Built for Two as Herman
- 1955 Mousieur Herman as Herman
- 1957 Cat In The Act as Herman
- 1957 From Mad to Worse as Herman
- 1951 Land of Lost Watches as Turtle (voice)
- 1942 My Sister Eileen as Jimmy (uncredited)
- 1968 Skidoo as Harry
- 1983 Wrong Way Kid as (voice)
- 1943 The Marry-Go-Round as Shorty (voice)
- 1981 No Man's Valley as Fred Firmwing (voice)
- 1950 Quack-a Doodle-Doo as Katie Bunny The Sailor
- 1961 Dondi as Peewee
- 1965 Pinocchio in Outer Space as Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
- 1988 Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Top Cat (voice)
- 1987 Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street as Bird (voice)
- 1962 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as Rumpelstiltskin
- 1973 The Mini-Munsters
- 1942 Seven Days' Leave as Bitsy Slater
- 1951 Two Gals and a Guy as Bernard
- 1977 The Fourth King as The turtle (voice)
- 1944 Moving Aweigh as Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
- 1970 Hercules in New York as Pretzie
- 1950 The Voice of the Turkey
- 1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Ray
- 1966 Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar as Jubal A. Bristol
- 1990 Ghost Dad as Mr. Cohen
- 1946 Cheese Burglar as Herman (voice)
- 1950 Saved by the Bell as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
- 1950 It's Only Muscle
- 1995 George Romero's Golden Tales 3
- 1991 Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self
- 1977 Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure as Queasy (voice)
- 1991 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1947 Naughty But Mice as Herman (voice)
- 1948 So This Is New York as Western Union Clerk
- 1993 Dennis the Menace as Photographer
- 1969 Hello Down There as Jonah
- 1972 Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon as The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
- 1962 Slippery Slippers as Prince Charming (voice)
- 1961 Kooky Loopy as Wolf (voice)
- 1945 Beau Ties as Fatso
- 1945 Let's Go Steady as Chet Carson
- 1988 Norman's Corner as Harv
- 1959 Owly to Bed as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
- 1953 Herman the Catoonist as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
- 1980 I Go Pogo as Churchy LaFemme (voice)
- 1957 Three Men on a Horse as Frankie
- 1943 No Mutton fer Nuttin' as Blackie
- 1945 A Lamb in a Jam as Blackie, Wolfie
- 1948 Texaco Star Theater ( 5 episodes )
- 1984 Tales from the Darkside ( 1 episode )
- 1954 December Bride ( 2 episodes )
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1966 Batman ( 1 episode ) as Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)
- 1984 The Cosby Show ( 1 episode ) as Man in Waiting Room
- 1961 Top Cat ( 30 episodes ) as Top Cat (voice)
- 1972 Emergency! ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Hollywood Preview ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 Wake, Rattle, and Roll ( 50 episodes )
- 1995 Mr. Men and Little Miss ( 104 episodes )
- 1985 Yogi's Treasure Hunt ( 27 episodes ) as Top Cat (voice)
- 1993 The Pink Panther ( 60 episodes )
- 1951 The Name's the Same ( 21 episodes ) as Self
- 1956 The Steve Allen Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
- 2001 The Broad Side ( 6 episodes )
- 1976 Misterjaw ( 34 episodes ) as Catfish (voice)
- 1990 Fender Bender 500 ( 50 episodes ) as Top Cat (voice)
- 1952 Doc Corkle ( 3 episodes ) as Winfield Dill
- 1954 December Bride ( 1 episode ) as Marvin
- 1950 The Bob Hope Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1983 Reading Rainbow ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1972 Emergency! ( 1 episode ) as Dick (uncredited)
- 1974 Chico and the Man ( 1 episode ) as Gus-delivery man
- 1999 Courage the Cowardly Dog ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Jake 'the Weasel'
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Wagon Train ( 1 episode ) as Ah Chong
