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Arnold Stang
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.
As actor
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Dennis the Menace
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Ghost Dad
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Norman's Corner
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Wrong Way Kid
No Man's Valley
I Go Pogo
The Fourth King
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
The Mini-Munsters
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Hercules in New York
Hello Down There
Skidoo
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Pinocchio in Outer Space
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Slippery Slippers
Dondi
Kooky Loopy
Owly to Bed
Cat In The Act
From Mad to Worse
Three Men on a Horse
The Man with the Golden Arm