Arnold Stang

Actor · 1918–2009 · 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.

Acted in 61

1990s

1999
Courage the Cowardly Dog
TV · 4 Seasons · Animation · Family
83
1995
Mr. Men and Little Miss
TV · 3 Seasons · Family · Animation
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Movie
1993
The Pink Panther
TV · 3 Seasons · Family · Animation
69
Dennis the Menace
Photographer
50
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
TV · 1 Season · Comedy
Fender Bender 500
Top Cat (voice) · 50 episodes
Ghost Dad
Mr. Cohen
35

1980s

1988
Norman's Corner
Harv
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Top Cat (voice)
1987
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Bird (voice)
1985
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Top Cat (voice) · 27 episodes
1984
Tales from the Darkside
TV · 4 Seasons · Drama · Science Fiction
73
The Cosby Show
Man in Waiting Room · 1 episode
73
1981
No Man's Valley
Fred Firmwing (voice)
1980
I Go Pogo
Churchy LaFemme (voice)