Arnold Stang (born September 28, 1925) is a comic actor who plays a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type. Never known as a solo performer (despite the existence of an unsold television pilot called The Arnold Stang Show), he works best in an ensemble cast in which he plays one of a diverse group of comic characters.
Stang was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a son of Harold and Anna (Chest) Stang. He began performing at the ...
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Arnold Stang (born September 28, 1925) is a comic actor who plays a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type. Never known as a solo performer (despite the existence of an unsold television pilot called The Arnold Stang Show), he works best in an ensemble cast in which he plays one of a diverse group of comic characters.
Stang was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a son of Harold and Anna (Chest) Stang. He began performing at the age of nine in radio shows such as Let's Pretend, but playing in dramas and mysteries as what he once called "little killers," according to radio historian Gerald Nachman (Raised on Radio). He told Nachman that he knew his nasal voice was his meal-ticket. "I'm kind of attached to it," he quipped to Nachman. "My personal logo. It's like Jell-O or Xerox." He also told Nachman that the bulk of his fan mail doesn't even address his film or television work. "All about my radio career," he said.
He was popular on radio in the 1940s as a sidekick to...
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