
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.
Acting (39 movies)

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955

A Bicep Built for Two
1955

My Sister Eileen
1942

Skidoo
1968

The Marry-Go-Round
1943

No Man's Valley
1981

Quack-a Doodle-Doo
1950

Dondi
1961

Pinocchio in Outer Space
1965

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988

Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
1987

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962

The Mini-Munsters
1973

Seven Days' Leave
1942

Two Gals and a Guy
1951

The Fourth King
1977

Moving Aweigh
1944

Hercules in New York
1970

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
1966

Ghost Dad
1990

Cheese Burglar
1946

Saved by the Bell
1950

George Romero's Golden Tales 3
1995

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure!
1977

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991

Naughty But Mice
1947

So This Is New York
1948

Dennis the Menace
1993

Hello Down There
1969

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
1972

Slippery Slippers
1962

Kooky Loopy
1961

Beau Ties
1945

Let's Go Steady
1945

Norman's Corner
1988

I Go Pogo
1980

Three Men on a Horse
1957
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