Arnold Stang
Date of birth: 1918-09-28
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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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.
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The Man with the Golden Arm
1955-12-26
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides
A Bicep Built for Two
1955-04-07
From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off an
Mousieur Herman
1955-11-25
Herman and Katnip in an art school.
Cat In The Act
1957-02-22
Unaware that Katnip is the night watchman, Herman takes his three nephews to Paramount Pictures Stud
From Mad to Worse
1957-08-16
The mice are having a great time playing on a train in a department store's toy department until nig
Land of Lost Watches
1951-05-04
Little Billy and Isabel catch Red Lantern, the Magic Fish. He takes them to the Land Of The Lost to
My Sister Eileen
1942-09-24
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers.
Skidoo
1968-12-19
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow m
Wrong Way Kid
1983-03-16
Chris is an insecure boy who, after an encounter with a 203-year-old bookworm, begins developing his
The Marry-Go-Round
1943-12-31
Popeye wants to propose to Olive, but can't work up the nerve. His fellow sailor, Shorty, helps him.
No Man's Valley
1981-11-23
Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before man drives them
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
1950-03-03
His Mama is the only one who love Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and
Dondi
1961-03-26
World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
Pinocchio in Outer Space
1965-12-22
Pinocchio tries to save the Earth from Astro the Space Whale
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988-03-20
Beverly hills dowager leaves everything to Benny the Ball because her only rightful heir, her niece
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
1987-11-18
The Primm family moves into an old brownstone house on East 88th Street, where they find a crocodile
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962-08-07
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have
The Mini-Munsters
1973-10-27
Animated telefilm based on characters from The Munsters. Originally aired as part of the ABC Saturda
Seven Days' Leave
1942-11-13
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns tha
Two Gals and a Guy
1951-07-01
A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week
The Fourth King
1977-12-23
The animals decide they must send a representative after the three wise men begin following the star
Moving Aweigh
1944-09-22
Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep
Hercules in New York
1970-02-23
Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestlin
The Voice of the Turkey
1950-10-13
A Paramount Noveltoon (production number P10-1) that has a farmer fattening up a turkey for Thanksgi
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963-11-07
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
1966-12-29
In this musical gem, big-hearted Jubal Bristol (Arnold Stang) takes it upon himself to mount a count
Ghost Dad
1990-06-29
Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of
Cheese Burglar
1946-02-21
While cats and dogs are natural enemies, such is not the case in the house where Herman the mouse li
Saved by the Bell
1950-09-15
Herman the mouse installs a bell on a cat to help his mice friends.
It's Only Muscle
1950-08-12
This RKO Pathe Screenliner film presents a parody of bodybuilder Charles Atlas. Atlas was an Italian
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991-01-01
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure!
1977-04-01
Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with other toys, reside in the nursery of a little girl named Marcella.
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O
Naughty But Mice
1947-10-09
Herman, the city-slicker mouse (looking like a cross between James Cagney and Lee Tracy) visits his
So This Is New York
1948-06-01
A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they
Dennis the Menace
1993-06-09
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll
Hello Down There
1969-01-01
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his famil
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
1972-11-30
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia's first animated feature film,[2] released in
Slippery Slippers
1962-09-07
Loopy helps Prince Charming find his beloved Cinderella.
Kooky Loopy
1961-11-16
Loopy meets The Big Bad Wolf of the Little Red Riding Hood story and wants him to be a good wolf.
Beau Ties
1945-04-19
Lulu is angry when she sees her boyfriend Fatso out with another girl. To make it up to Lulu, Fatso
Let's Go Steady
1945-01-04
After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled coll
Norman's Corner
1988-11-12
A day in the life of a neurotic newsstand owner.
Owly to Bed
1959-01-01
A sleep-walking baby owl finds its way in Herman's house, and the friendly mouse makes friends with
Herman the Catoonist
1953-05-15
When the cartoonist takes a coffee break and leaves the office for a spell, Katnip and "Hoiman" brea
I Go Pogo
1980-08-01
Pogo Possum is finagled into running for President of the United States in this stop motion animated
Three Men on a Horse
1957-04-18
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.