Arnold Stang
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 28, 1918
- Died
- December 20, 2009 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Broad Side
TV · 6 eps
Courage the Cowardly Dog
TV · 1 ep
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Movie
Mr. Men and Little Miss
TV · 104 eps
Dennis the Menace
Movie · as Photographer
The Pink Panther
TV · 60 eps
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Movie · as Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie · as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ghost Dad
Movie · as Mr. Cohen
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
TV · 50 eps
Fender Bender 500
TV · as Top Cat (voice) · 50 eps
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Movie · as Top Cat (voice)
Norman's Corner
Movie · as Harv
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Movie · as Bird (voice)
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
TV · as Top Cat (voice) · 27 eps
Tales from the Darkside
TV · 1 ep
The Cosby Show
TV · as Man in Waiting Room · 1 ep
Wrong Way Kid
Movie · as (voice)
Reading Rainbow
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
No Man's Valley
Movie · as Fred Firmwing (voice)
I Go Pogo
Movie · as Churchy LaFemme (voice)
The Fourth King
Movie · as The turtle (voice)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Movie · as Queasy (voice)
Misterjaw
TV · as Catfish (voice) · 34 eps
Chico and the Man
TV · as Gus-delivery man · 1 ep
The Mini-Munsters
Movie
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Movie · as The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
Emergency!
TV · as Arthur Merkl, Dick (uncredited) · 1 ep
Hercules in New York
Movie · as Pretzie
Hello Down There
Movie · as Jonah
Skidoo
Movie · as Harry
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Movie · as Jubal A. Bristol
Batman
TV · as Gun Shop Owner (uncredited) · 1 ep
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Movie · as Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
Broadside
TV · as Stanley Stubbs · 10 eps
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie · as Ray
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie · as Rumpelstiltskin
Slippery Slippers
Movie · as Prince Charming (voice)
Dondi
Movie · as Peewee
Kooky Loopy
Movie · as Wolf (voice)
Top Cat
TV · as Top Cat (voice) · 30 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Owly to Bed
Movie · as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Katnip's Big Day
Movie · as Herman (archive footage) (voice)
Bonanza
TV · as Jake 'the Weasel' · 1 ep
Cat In The Act
Movie · as Herman
From Mad to Worse
Movie · as Herman
Three Men on a Horse
Movie · as Frankie
Wagon Train
TV · as Ah Chong · 1 ep
The Steve Allen Show
TV · as Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk' · 1 ep
The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie · as Sparrow
A Bicep Built for Two
Movie · as Herman
Mousieur Herman
Movie · as Herman
Hollywood Preview
TV · as Self · 1 ep
December Bride
TV · as Marvin · 2 eps
Herman the Catoonist
Movie · as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Of Mice and Magic
Movie · as Herman (voice)
Doc Corkle
TV · as Winfield Dill · 3 eps
Land of Lost Watches
Movie · as Turtle (voice)
Two Gals and a Guy
Movie · as Bernard
The Name's the Same
TV · as Self · 21 eps
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Movie · as Katie Bunny The Sailor (voice) (uncredited)
The Voice of the Turkey
Movie
Saved by the Bell
Movie · as Herman (voice) (uncredited)
It's Only Muscle
Movie
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Bob Hope Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · 1 ep
So This Is New York
Movie · as Western Union Clerk
Texaco Star Theater
TV · 5 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Naughty But Mice
Movie · as Herman (voice)
Cheese Burglar
Movie · as Herman (voice)
Beau Ties
Movie · as Fatso (voice)
Let's Go Steady
Movie · as Chet Carson
A Lamb in a Jam
Movie · as Blackie, Wolfie
Moving Aweigh
Movie · as Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
The Marry-Go-Round
Movie · as Shorty (voice)
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
Movie · as Blackie
My Sister Eileen
Movie · as Jimmy (uncredited)
Seven Days' Leave
Movie · as Bitsy Slater