Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1918-09-28
Day of Death
2009-12-20
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography (50)
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
1995
Dennis the Menace
1993
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991
Ghost Dad
1990
Norman's Corner
1988
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
1987Wrong Way Kid
1983
No Man's Valley
1981
I Go Pogo
1980
The Fourth King
1977
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1977
The Mini-Munsters
1973
