Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 28, 1918
Died
Dec 20, 2009
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
79 titles
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
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
Photographer
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Self
Fender Bender 500
Top Cat (voice)
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
Ghost Dad
Mr. Cohen
Norman's Corner
Harv
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Top Cat (voice)
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Bird (voice)
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Top Cat (voice)
Tales from the Darkside
The Cosby Show
Man in Waiting Room
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
Wrong Way Kid
(voice)
No Man's Valley
Fred Firmwing (voice)
I Go Pogo
Churchy LaFemme (voice)
The Fourth King
The turtle (voice)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Queasy (voice)
Misterjaw
Catfish (voice)
Chico and the Man
Gus-delivery man
The Mini-Munsters
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
Emergency!
Hercules in New York
Pretzie
Hello Down There
Jonah
Skidoo
Harry
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Jubal A. Bristol
Batman
Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ray
Slippery Slippers
Prince Charming (voice)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Kooky Loopy
Wolf (voice)
Top Cat
Top Cat (voice)
Dondi
Peewee
Bonanza
Jake 'the Weasel'
Owly to Bed
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Wagon Train
Ah Chong
From Mad to Worse
Herman
Three Men on a Horse
Frankie
Cat In The Act
Herman
The Steve Allen Show
Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
The Man with the Golden Arm
Sparrow
Mousieur Herman
Herman