Arnold Stang
Known For
Acting
Born
1918-09-28 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died
2009-12-20
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.
Most Known For
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Bonanza
as Jake 'the Weasel'
Batman
as Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)
The Cosby Show
as Man in Waiting Room
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
Emergency!
Emergency!
as Dick (uncredited)
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Wagon Train
as Ah Chong
Tales from the Darkside
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
December Bride
December Bride
as Marvin
The Pink Panther
Top Cat
as Top Cat (voice)