Arnold Stang

About

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...

Known for

BonanzaSeries • 1959Wagon TrainSeries • 1957BatmanSeries • 1966The Cosby ShowSeries • 1984Emergency!Series • 1972Robert Montgomery PresentsSeries • 1950Tales from the DarksideSeries • 1984Courage the Cowardly DogSeries • 1999December BrideSeries • 1954The Pink PantherSeries • 1993Top CatSeries • 1961Chico and the ManSeries • 1974Dennis the MenaceMovie • 1993Mr. Men and Little MissSeries • 1995Wake, Rattle, and RollSeries • 1990It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldMovie • 1963Hercules in New YorkMovie • 1970The Man with the Golden ArmMovie • 1955Ghost DadMovie • 1990The Wonderful World of the Brothers GrimmMovie • 1962Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical AdventureMovie • 1977Top Cat and the Beverly Hills CatsMovie • 1988SkidooMovie • 1968My Sister EileenMovie • 1942