Arnold Stang

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Arnold Stang (born September 28, 1918 in Manhattan , New York City , † December 20, 2009 in Newton , Massachusetts ) was an American actor .

life and career

Arnold Stang was born in Manhattan as the son of a lawyer who worked as a salesman after the stock market crash in 1929 (the alternative date of birth 1925 is incorrect). Already in his childhood, around 1927, Stang appeared on various radio shows as a speaker. At the age of nine he appeared in the Horn and Hardart's Children's Hour , and in the next 20 years he appeared in a large number of supporting roles in radio series, for example in Gertrude Berg's family series The Goldbergs . He also worked on radio with comedians such as Eddie Cantor , Jack Benny , Henry Morgan and Milton Berle , and he appeared more frequently on the latter's television show in the 1950s.

Since the early 1940s he has also worked for movies and has spoken various roles in cartoons, such as Popeye's friend Shorty . In the US, however, Stang is most identified with his vocal role as the cat Top Cat in the 1960s cartoon series of the same name (which ran as Super Kater in Germany ). Until the new millennium, Stang could be heard as a spokesperson for other cartoon series and countless commercials. In the theater he played three times on Broadway , most recently in 1969 in a revival of Ben Hecht's comedy The Front Page .

He had his first important film role (in which he was "seen") in 1955 as "Sparrow", seller of homeless dogs and loyal sidekick of Frank Sinatra's character, in Otto Preminger's drug drama The Man with the Golden Arm . He has also been seen with his body in other films, for example as Rumpelstiltskin in The Wonder World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) alongside Laurence Harvey and Karlheinz Böhm, and as a gas station operator in Stanley Kramer's star-studded comedy A total, totally crazy world (1963). The short actor with glasses and an owl face often played somewhat cheeky, comedic characters that could seem both tearful and surprisingly defensive. In 1969 he co-starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role of a pretzel seller in his first leading role in the B-movie Hercules in New York .

From the 1990s, Arnold Stang increasingly withdrew from the acting business. Arnold Stang was married to Joanne Taggart from September 1949 until his death and they had two children. He died of pneumonia in December 2009 at the age of 91.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Weber: Arnold Stang, Milquetoast Actor, Dies at 91 . In: The New York Times . December 22, 2009, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 14, 2019]).
  2. ^ Arnold Stang | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved March 14, 2019 (American English).
  3. ^ Arnold Stang - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bruce Weber: Arnold Stang, Milquetoast Actor, Dies at 91 . In: The New York Times . December 22, 2009, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 14, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Actor Arnold Stang dies at 91. Retrieved on March 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stang, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2009
Place of death Newton , Massachusetts