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