Arnold Stang

Acting

Born Sep 28, 1918

From Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Died Dec 20, 2009

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.

Arnold Stang

Known For

Dennis the Menace

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

Ghost Dad

Hercules in New York

The Man with the Golden Arm

Skidoo

Hello Down There

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

So This Is New York

Filmography — Acting

Dennis the Menace

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

Ghost Dad

Hercules in New York

The Man with the Golden Arm

Skidoo

Hello Down There

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

So This Is New York

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure

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

My Sister Eileen

Dondi

No Man's Valley

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats

Three Men on a Horse

I Go Pogo

Wrong Way Kid

Naughty But Mice

Seven Days' Leave

Norman's Corner

The Mini-Munsters

Cheese Burglar

Let's Go Steady

Two Gals and a Guy

Owly to Bed

George Romero's Golden Tales 3

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar

Slippery Slippers

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon

A Bicep Built for Two

Quack-a Doodle-Doo

Pinocchio in Outer Space

Kooky Loopy

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

Land of Lost Watches

Moving Aweigh

From Mad to Worse

Cat In The Act

The Fourth King

No Mutton fer Nuttin'

The Voice of the Turkey

Beau Ties

It's Only Muscle

The Marry-Go-Round

Herman the Catoonist

Saved by the Bell

Mousieur Herman