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Arnold Stang
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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 an…
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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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Arnold Stang's Filmography
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George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Dennis the Menace
as Photographer
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
as Self
Ghost Dad
as Mr. Cohen
Norman's Corner
as Harv
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
as Top Cat (voice)
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
as Bird (voice)
No Poster
Wrong Way Kid
as (voice)
No Man's Valley
as Fred Firmwing (voice)
I Go Pogo
as Churchy LaFemme (voice)
The Fourth King
as The turtle (voice)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
as Queasy (voice)
The Mini-Munsters
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
as The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
Hercules in New York
as Pretzie
Hello Down There
as Jonah
Skidoo
as Harry
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
as Jubal A. Bristol
Pinocchio in Outer Space
as Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Ray
Slippery Slippers
as Prince Charming (voice)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as Rumpelstiltskin
Kooky Loopy
as Wolf (voice)
Dondi
as Peewee
Katnip's Big Day
as Herman (archive footage) (voice)
No Poster
Owly to Bed
as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
No Poster
From Mad to Worse
as Herman
Three Men on a Horse
as Frankie
No Poster
Cat In The Act
as Herman
The Man with the Golden Arm
as Sparrow
Mousieur Herman
as Herman
A Bicep Built for Two
as Herman
No Poster
Herman the Catoonist
as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Of Mice and Magic
as Herman (voice)
Two Gals and a Guy
as Bernard
No Poster
Land of Lost Watches
as Turtle (voice)
No Poster
The Voice of the Turkey
Saved by the Bell
as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
No Poster
It's Only Muscle
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
as Katie Bunny The Sailor
So This Is New York
as Western Union Clerk
Naughty But Mice
as Herman (voice)
Cheese Burglar
as Herman (voice)
A Lamb in a Jam
as Blackie, Wolfie
Beau Ties
as Fatso (voice)
Let's Go Steady
as Chet Carson
Moving Aweigh
as Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
The Marry-Go-Round
as Shorty (voice)
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
as Blackie
Seven Days' Leave
as Bitsy Slater
My Sister Eileen
as Jimmy (uncredited)