Portrait of Arnold Stang

Arnold Stang

Acting

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.

Born: September 28, 1918

Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

1993
Dennis the Menace

as Photographer

1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990
Fender Bender 500

as Top Cat (voice)

1990
Ghost Dad

as Mr. Cohen

1988
1985
Yogi's Treasure Hunt

as Top Cat (voice)

1984
The Cosby Show

as Man in Waiting Room

1983
Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1981
No Man's Valley

as Fred Firmwing (voice)

1980
I Go Pogo

as Churchy LaFemme (voice)

1977
The Fourth King

as The turtle (voice)

1976
Misterjaw

as Catfish (voice)

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 Dick (uncredited)

1970
1969
1968
Skidoo

as Harry

1966
1966
Batman

as Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)

1965
Pinocchio in Outer Space

as Nurtle the Turtle (voice)

1962
Slippery Slippers

as Prince Charming (voice)

1961
Kooky Loopy

as Wolf (voice)

1961
Top Cat

as Top Cat (voice)

1961
Dondi

as Peewee

1959
Bonanza

as Jake 'the Weasel'

1957
1956
The Steve Allen Show

as Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'

1954
1951
1950
Saved by the Bell

as Herman (voice) (uncredited)

1950
Quack-a Doodle-Doo

as Katie Bunny The Sailor

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1948
So This Is New York

as Western Union Clerk

1947
Naughty But Mice

as Herman (voice)

1946
Cheese Burglar

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
Seven Days' Leave

as Bitsy Slater

1942
My Sister Eileen

as Jimmy (uncredited)