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