Arnold Stang

Arnold Stang September 28 1918 December 20 2009 was an American comic actor who played a small and bespectacled yet brash and knowing bigcity type One of the most arresting facts about Arnold Stang is that he is perfectly happy with the role of Gerard on NBCs Henry Morgan Show Unlike many actors and comedians who have climbed to fame with one particular role Stang isnt afraid of becoming typed The small economysize Arnold twentyeightyearold comic who has been likened to a nearsighted 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 Stangs career in show business began at a radio audition when he was eleven Wearing heavy hornrimmed 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