Arnold Stang
Acting
Born: 1918-09-28 in 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
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Dennis the Menace
Photographer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ray
Batman
Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)
The Cosby Show
Man in Waiting Room
Bonanza
Jake 'the Weasel'
Top Cat
Top Cat (voice)
Hercules in New York
Pretzie
The Man with the Golden Arm
Sparrow
Ghost Dad
Mr. Cohen
Tales from the Darkside
The Pink Panther
Emergency!
Arthur Merkl
Emergency!
Dick (uncredited)
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Top Cat (voice)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin
Wagon Train
Ah Chong
What's My Line?
Self
Skidoo
Harry
My Sister Eileen
Jimmy (uncredited)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Queasy (voice)
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Hello Down There
Jonah
Chico and the Man
Gus-delivery man
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Top Cat (voice)
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Katie Bunny The Sailor
Dondi
Peewee
Robert Montgomery Presents
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
Naughty But Mice
Herman (voice)
So This Is New York
Western Union Clerk
Texaco Star Theater
The Steve Allen Show
Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
The Bob Hope Show
Self
Cheese Burglar
Herman (voice)
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)