Arnold Stang
Known for: Acting
Born: September 28, 1918
Died: December 20, 2009
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
52 movies · 30 TV shows, newest first
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The Broad Side
2001
8.2
Courage the Cowardly Dog
1999
7.0
Mr. Men and Little Miss
1995
3.0
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
1995
7.0
The Pink Panther
1993
5.9
Dennis the Menace
1993
8.0
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
8.0
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991
7.0
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
1990
6.0
Fender Bender 500
1990
5.0
Ghost Dad
1990
7.5
Norman's Corner
1988
6.8
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988
8.0
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
1987
7.4
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
1985
7.2
Tales from the Darkside
1984
7.0
The Cosby Show
1984
8.4
Reading Rainbow
19837.0
Wrong Way Kid
1983
7.0
No Man's Valley
1981
4.0
I Go Pogo
1980
7.0
The Fourth King
1977
7.0
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1977
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Misterjaw
1976
6.1
Chico and the Man
1974
8.0
The Mini-Munsters
1973
7.3
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
1972
8.0
Emergency!
1972
4.1
Hercules in New York
1970
5.9
Hello Down There
1969
4.7
Skidoo
1968
5.3
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
1966
7.3
Batman
1966
5.5
Pinocchio in Outer Space
1965
7.0
Broadside
1964
7.0
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
4.0
Slippery Slippers
1962
5.9
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
5.3
Kooky Loopy
1961
7.5
Top Cat
1961
4.1
Dondi
1961
9.0
Katnip's Big Day
1959
7.5
Bonanza
19597.0
Owly to Bed
1959
6.6
Wagon Train
19579.0
From Mad to Worse
1957
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Three Men on a Horse
195710.0
Cat In The Act
1957
6.2
The Steve Allen Show
1956
7.1
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
10.0
Mousieur Herman
19557.0
Hollywood Preview
1955
7.0
A Bicep Built for Two
1955
6.3
December Bride
19548.5
Herman the Catoonist
1953
8.3
Of Mice and Magic
195310.0
Doc Corkle
1952NR
The Name's the Same
1951
7.0
Two Gals and a Guy
19518.0
Land of Lost Watches
19519.0
The Voice of the Turkey
1950
10.0
Saved by the Bell
1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950NR
It's Only Muscle
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
1950
4.8
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
19487.5
Texaco Star Theater
1948
6.7
So This Is New York
1948
6.2
Naughty But Mice
1947
6.0
Cheese Burglar
1946
9.0
A Lamb in a Jam
1945
10.0
Beau Ties
1945
9.0
Let's Go Steady
1945
6.7
Moving Aweigh
1944
6.7
The Marry-Go-Round
1943
7.7
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
1943
7.3
Seven Days' Leave
1942
6.8
My Sister Eileen
1942