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Arnold Stang
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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 arresti…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2001
The Broad Side
TV show
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1999
Courage the Cowardly Dog
TV show
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1995
Mr. Men and Little Miss
TV show
- 1995
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1993
The Pink Panther
TV show
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1993
Dennis the Menace
Movie Photographer
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1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1991
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1990
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
TV show
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1990
Fender Bender 500
TV show Top Cat (voice)
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1990
Ghost Dad
Movie Mr. Cohen
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1988
Norman's Corner
Movie Harv
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1988
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Movie Top Cat (voice)
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1987
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Movie Bird (voice)
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1985
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
TV show Top Cat (voice)
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1984
Tales from the Darkside
TV show
More credits
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1984
The Cosby Show
TV show Man in Waiting Room
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1983
Reading Rainbow
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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1983
Wrong Way Kid
Movie (voice)
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1981
No Man's Valley
Movie Fred Firmwing (voice)
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1980
I Go Pogo
Movie Churchy LaFemme (voice)
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1977
The Fourth King
Movie The turtle (voice)
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1977
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Movie Queasy (voice)
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1976
Misterjaw
TV show Catfish (voice)
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1974
Chico and the Man
TV show Gus-delivery man
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1973
The Mini-Munsters
Movie
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1972
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Movie The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
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1972
Emergency!
TV show Arthur Merkl
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1970
Hercules in New York
Movie Pretzie
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1969
Hello Down There
Movie Jonah
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1968
Skidoo
Movie Harry
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1966
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Movie Jubal A. Bristol
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1966
Batman
TV show Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)
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1965
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Movie Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
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1964
Broadside
TV show Stanley Stubbs
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1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie Ray
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1962
Slippery Slippers
Movie Prince Charming (voice)
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1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie Rumpelstiltskin
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
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1961
Kooky Loopy
Movie Wolf (voice)
