Arnold Stang
Acting • Born 1918-09-28 – Died 2009-12-20
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.
Filmography
80 credits
The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie • 1955
Sparrow
A Bicep Built for Two
Movie • 1955
Herman
Mousieur Herman
Movie • 1955
Herman
Cat In The Act
Movie • 1957
Herman
From Mad to Worse
Movie • 1957
Herman
Land of Lost Watches
Movie • 1951
Turtle (voice)
My Sister Eileen
Movie • 1942
Jimmy (uncredited)
Skidoo
Movie • 1968
Harry
Wrong Way Kid
Movie • 1983
(voice)
The Marry-Go-Round
Movie • 1943
Shorty (voice)
No Man's Valley
Movie • 1981
Fred Firmwing (voice)
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Movie • 1950
Katie Bunny The Sailor
Dondi
Movie • 1961
Peewee
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Movie • 1965
Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Movie • 1988
Top Cat (voice)
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Movie • 1987
Bird (voice)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie • 1962
Rumpelstiltskin
The Mini-Munsters
Movie • 1973
Seven Days' Leave
Movie • 1942
Bitsy Slater
Two Gals and a Guy
Movie • 1951
Bernard
The Fourth King
Movie • 1977
The turtle (voice)
Moving Aweigh
Movie • 1944
Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
Hercules in New York
Movie • 1970
Pretzie
The Voice of the Turkey
Movie • 1950
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie • 1963
Ray
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Movie • 1966
Jubal A. Bristol
Ghost Dad
Movie • 1990
Mr. Cohen
Cheese Burglar
Movie • 1946
Herman (voice)
Saved by the Bell
Movie • 1950
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
It's Only Muscle
Movie • 1950
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Movie • 1995
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Movie • 1991
Self
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure!
Movie • 1977
Queasy (voice)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie • 1991
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Naughty But Mice
Movie • 1947
Herman (voice)
So This Is New York
Movie • 1948
Western Union Clerk
Dennis the Menace
Movie • 1993
Photographer
Hello Down There
Movie • 1969
Jonah
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Movie • 1972
The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
Slippery Slippers
Movie • 1962
Prince Charming (voice)
Kooky Loopy
Movie • 1961
Wolf (voice)
Beau Ties
Movie • 1945
Fatso
Let's Go Steady
Movie • 1945
Chet Carson
Norman's Corner
Movie • 1988
Harv
Owly to Bed
Movie • 1959
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
Herman the Catoonist
Movie • 1953
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
I Go Pogo
Movie • 1980
Churchy LaFemme (voice)
Three Men on a Horse
Movie • 1957
Frankie
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
Movie • 1943
Blackie
Texaco Star Theater
TV • 1948
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
December Bride
TV • 1954
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Batman
TV • 1966
Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)
The Cosby Show
TV • 1984
Man in Waiting Room
Top Cat
TV • 1961
Top Cat (voice)
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Hollywood Preview
TV • 1955
Self
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
TV • 1990
Mr. Men and Little Miss
TV • 1995
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
TV • 1985
Top Cat (voice)
The Pink Panther
TV • 1993
The Name's the Same
TV • 1951
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
The Broad Side
TV • 2001
Misterjaw
TV • 1976
Catfish (voice)
Fender Bender 500
TV • 1990
Top Cat (voice)
Doc Corkle
TV • 1952
Winfield Dill
December Bride
TV • 1954
Marvin
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Reading Rainbow
TV • 1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Dick (uncredited)
Chico and the Man
TV • 1974
Gus-delivery man
Courage the Cowardly Dog
TV • 1999
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Jake 'the Weasel'
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Ah Chong