RIP
He was great with Milty.
He was “pre-nerd”.
Rest in Peace Arnold.
I've been hospitalized for pneumonia before. That has to be a frightening way to die.
RIP
I recently saw him in a repeat episode of the old Emergency show. I didn’t think he was still around. Great actor. RIP.
Funny guy. He was great in “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” in the scene where Jonathan Winters demolishes the service station. RIP.
IMHO, his part was one of the funniest ones in “Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World”
He played the co-owner of a new gas station. When Jonathan Winters starts destroying their new gas station, this little nerdy guy (Stang) shouts out “We’re going to have to kill him!”
One of the favorites of my youth...he now joins Officer Dibble and Benny the Ball in that alley in the sky.
As if Schwarzenegger needed anyone to make him look bigger, casting Stang alongside him in “Hercules in New York” did the trick quite well.
wow, had no idea he was still hanging in there at 91.
Last I heard Frank Cady (Mr. Drucker from Green Acres and Petticoat Junction) was still around at ninety-something
is forever classic! Ray: [after hitting Pike unconscious with a pop bottle] Holy mackerel. When he started... Listen, we better get him tied up. What are we gonna do when he comes to?
Irwin: Hit him again.
Ray: Oh, I couldn't!
This classic movie (1960s) had many actors who appeared in television comedies, and also in this movie. One person in particular starred in a television sitcom, had another sitcom based on his original, and also appeared in this movie. I’ll call him “Mr. X”!
Here is where it gets confusing:
Considering the thread topic this should be easy to figure out.
He and Marvin "Choo Choo" Kaplan were hilarious as two gas station attendants menaced by Jonathan Winters in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!
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Only thing I know him from is he was one of the gas station attendants that got his ass whipped by Jonathan Winters in “It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World”.
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Here is where Arnold Stang really made his bones . . . with one of the genuine greats of old-time radio (shown in the rightmost photo; I have no idea about the leftmost photo): More of The Henry Morgan Show.
Even more of The Henry Morgan Show.
He was in pretty good company on this show, too: castmates at various times included Art Carney, Florence Halop (formerly Miss Duffy on Duffy's Tavern and eventually the second lady bailiff on Night Court), Pert Kelton (eventually the original Alice in Jackie Gleason's "Honeymooners" sketches on Cavalcade of Stars) . . .
Stang's other classic radio credits: The Goldbergs (as Seymour Fingerhood, briefly interested in Rosalie Goldberg), The Horn & Hardart Children's Hour (from the early 1930s, which may have been his first big break---as would also come true, in due course, for such eventual radio and other showbusiness mainstays as Eddie Fisher, Bea Wain, and Connie Francis), The Remarkable Miss Tuttle (classified as a "light" drama, which is probably putting it politely), and---briefly, in the title role---That Brewster Boy.
Stang also did Milton Berle's final bid to make something of himself in radio. The final radio Milton Berle Show, under that title and, with a very slight revamp, under the title Texaco Star Theater (a title that had been used last for Fred Allen's 1940-44 series on CBS), was a ratings bomb that might stand best as the vehicle through which Berle brought aboard Stang (who was working The Henry Morgan Show at the same time) and through which Berle began refining some of the format by which he'd become a television hit.
Berle was really suited better to television, however much he and Texaco weren't sure television was coming in to stay. Television was, even if Berle was probably bound to burn himself out within a very short time, which is exactly what he did within five years.
Stang was smart enough to stay within himself (which was pretty damn versatile when all was said and done; he usually shone in even the most trite vehicles and was one of the greatest supporting players in radio) and avoid the mistakes made by many of the stars he supported. He was rarely out of work for very long in those years and, from all indications, those who hired him thought it was smart to have hired him.
A footnote about Florence Halop: She was the second Night Court bailiff to die of cancer within little more than a year after taking the role; she succeeded another old-time radio semi-legend, whose reputation was made as a comedy writer (among other things, she was a protege of comedy master Goodman Ace on first The Danny Kaye Show and, later, The Big Show) and a magazine humourist: Selma Diamond.
I’ve never heard of Top Cat.
I remember him from an episode of Bonanza though.
RIP