Arnold Stang
Acting
1918-09-28 · 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 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
The Broad Side
2001 · Series
Courage the Cowardly Dog
1999 · Series
Mr. Men and Little Miss
1995 · Series
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
1995 · Movie
The Pink Panther
1993 · Series
Dennis the Menace
1993 · Movie
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Movie
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991 · Movie
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
1990 · Series
Fender Bender 500
1990 · Series
Ghost Dad
1990 · Movie
Norman's Corner
1988 · Movie
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988 · Movie
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
1987 · Movie
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
1985 · Series
Tales from the Darkside
1984 · Series
The Cosby Show
1984 · Series
Reading Rainbow
1983 · Series
Wrong Way Kid
1983 · Movie
No Man's Valley
1981 · Movie
I Go Pogo
1980 · Movie
The Fourth King
1977 · Movie
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1977 · Movie
Misterjaw
1976 · Series
Chico and the Man
1974 · Series
The Mini-Munsters
1973 · Movie
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
1972 · Movie
Emergency!
1972 · Series
Hercules in New York
1970 · Movie
Hello Down There
1969 · Movie
Skidoo
1968 · Movie
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
1966 · Movie
Batman
1966 · Series
Pinocchio in Outer Space
1965 · Movie
Broadside
1964 · Series
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie
Slippery Slippers
1962 · Movie
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 · Movie
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Kooky Loopy
1961 · Movie
Top Cat
1961 · Series
Dondi
1961 · Movie
Katnip's Big Day
1959 · Movie
Bonanza
1959 · Series
Owly to Bed
1959 · Movie
Wagon Train
1957 · Series
From Mad to Worse
1957 · Movie
Three Men on a Horse
1957 · Movie
Cat In The Act
1957 · Movie
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Series
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955 · Movie
Mousieur Herman
1955 · Movie
Hollywood Preview
1955 · Series
A Bicep Built for Two
1955 · Movie
December Bride
1954 · Series
Herman the Catoonist
1953 · Movie
Of Mice and Magic
1953 · Movie
Doc Corkle
1952 · Series
The Name's the Same
1951 · Series
Two Gals and a Guy
1951 · Movie
Land of Lost Watches
1951 · Movie
The Voice of the Turkey
1950 · Movie
Saved by the Bell
1950 · Movie
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Series
It's Only Muscle
1950 · Movie
The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Series
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
Texaco Star Theater
1948 · Series
So This Is New York
1948 · Movie
Naughty But Mice
1947 · Movie
Cheese Burglar
1946 · Movie
A Lamb in a Jam
1945 · Movie
Beau Ties
1945 · Movie
Let's Go Steady
1945 · Movie
Moving Aweigh
1944 · Movie
The Marry-Go-Round
1943 · Movie
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
1943 · Movie
Seven Days' Leave
1942 · Movie
My Sister Eileen
1942 · Movie