Arnold Stang

DOB: 1918-09-28

DOD: 2009-12-20

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.

Starred In

1955
Movie

Mousieur Herman

1957
Movie

Cat In The Act

1957
Movie

From Mad to Worse

1942
Movie

My Sister Eileen

1968
Movie

Skidoo

1983
Movie

Wrong Way Kid

1943
Movie

The Marry-Go-Round

1981
Movie

No Man's Valley

1950
Movie

Quack-a Doodle-Doo

1961
Movie

Dondi

1973
Movie

The Mini-Munsters

1942
Movie

Seven Days' Leave

1951
Movie

Two Gals and a Guy

1977
Movie

The Fourth King

1944
Movie

Moving Aweigh

1990
Movie

Ghost Dad

1946
Movie

Cheese Burglar

1950
Movie

Saved by the Bell

1950
Movie

It's Only Muscle

1947
Movie

Naughty But Mice

1993
Movie

Dennis the Menace

1969
Movie

Hello Down There

1962
Movie

Slippery Slippers

1961
Movie

Kooky Loopy

1945
Movie

Beau Ties

1945
Movie

Let's Go Steady

1988
Movie

Norman's Corner

1959
Movie

Owly to Bed

1980
Movie

I Go Pogo

1966
Tv

Batman

1961
Tv

Top Cat

1972
Tv

Emergency!

1976
Tv

Misterjaw

1952
Tv

Doc Corkle

1972
Tv

Emergency!

1959
Tv

Bonanza