Cast & creator
Arnold Stang
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, Bonanza, What's My Line?
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.
52
film credits
32
television credits
84
1942–2001 · acting roles
7.0
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (84)
Showing 84 of 84 credits
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Bonanza
Jake 'the Weasel'
1959
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Wagon Train
Ah Chong
1957
The Cosby Show
Man in Waiting Room
1984
Batman
Gun Shop Owner (uncredited)
1966
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Emergency!
Arthur Merkl
1972Emergency!
Dick (uncredited)
1972
Tales from the Darkside
1984
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Courage the Cowardly Dog
1999
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
The Steve Allen Show
Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
1956
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
December Bride
1954December Bride
Marvin
1954
The Pink Panther
1993
Chico and the Man
Gus-delivery man
1974
Top Cat
Top Cat (voice)
1961
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
1990
Dennis the Menace
Photographer
1993
Mr. Men and Little Miss
1995
Fender Bender 500
Top Cat (voice)
1990
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ray
1963
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Top Cat (voice)
1985
Broadside
Stanley Stubbs
1964The Name's the Same
Self
1951
Misterjaw
Catfish (voice)
1976
Hercules in New York
Pretzie
1970
The Man with the Golden Arm
Sparrow
1955
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin
1962Hollywood Preview
Self
1955
Ghost Dad
Mr. Cohen
1990Texaco Star Theater
1948
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Top Cat (voice)
1988
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Queasy (voice)
1977
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Self
1991
Skidoo
Harry
1968
So This Is New York
Western Union Clerk
1948
Hello Down There
Jonah
1969
Let's Go Steady
Chet Carson
1945The Broad Side
2001
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Nurtle the Turtle (voice)
1965
Katnip's Big Day
Herman (archive footage) (voice)
1959
I Go Pogo
Churchy LaFemme (voice)
1980
The Marry-Go-Round
Shorty (voice)
1943
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Bird (voice)
1987
No Man's Valley
Fred Firmwing (voice)
1981
Slippery Slippers
Prince Charming (voice)
1962
My Sister Eileen
Jimmy (uncredited)
1942
Two Gals and a Guy
Bernard
1951
Three Men on a Horse
Frankie
1957
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Jubal A. Bristol
1966
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
The Delicate Dinosaur (voice)
1972Doc Corkle
Winfield Dill
1952
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
1995Wrong Way Kid
(voice)
1983
Kooky Loopy
Wolf (voice)
1961
A Bicep Built for Two
Herman
1955
Seven Days' Leave
Bitsy Slater
1942
Saved by the Bell
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Katie Bunny The Sailor
1950From Mad to Worse
Herman
1957
Mousieur Herman
Herman
1955
Dondi
Peewee
1961
A Lamb in a Jam
Blackie, Wolfie
1945
Of Mice and Magic
Herman (voice)
1953
Naughty But Mice
Herman (voice)
1947Land of Lost Watches
Turtle (voice)
1951
The Mini-Munsters
1973Cat In The Act
Herman
1957The Voice of the Turkey
1950
Norman's Corner
Harv
1988
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
Blackie
1943It's Only Muscle
1950Owly to Bed
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
1959
Cheese Burglar
Herman (voice)
1946
The Fourth King
The turtle (voice)
1977
Moving Aweigh
Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
1944Herman the Catoonist
Herman (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Beau Ties
Fatso (voice)
1945