Arnold Stang (born September 28, 1925 in Chelsea, Massachusetts) 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, and prefers, an ensemble cast in which he plays only one of a diverse group of comic characters. September 28 is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (272nd in leap years). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Chelsea City Hall The City of Chelsea is located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts directly across the Mystic River from the City of Boston. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A television pilot is the first episode of an intended television series. ... An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. ...

• On radio, he was popular in the 1940s as a sidekick to cantankerous comedian Henry Morgan---whenever Morgan wasn't driving himself off the air after zapping one sponsor or network official too many.

• During television's so-called Golden Age, Stang became something of a star as a sidekick on Milton Berle's groundbreaking Texaco Star Theater.

• In movies, he played Sparrow in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) alongside Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak (and earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor). In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) he played Ray, who along with his partner Irwin (played by Marvin Kaplan) owns a gas station that is destroyed by Jonathan Winters. In one of the weirdest-ever movie pairings, he was teamed with the young Arnold Schwarzenegger (billed as "Arnold Strong") in the latter's first film, the camp classic Hercules in New York (1970).

• As a voice actor for animated cartoons, he provided the voice for Popeye's pal Shorty (who looked somewhat like Stang as it was), Herman the mouse in a number of Famous Studios cartoons, the Hanna-Barbera character Top Cat (modeled explicitly on Phil Silvers's popular television character as scheming, wisecracking Sgt. Bilko), and Catfish on Misterjaw.

• In television commercials, he was spokesman for the Chunky candy bar, when he would (after listing most of the ingredients) smile and say, "Chunky, what a chunk of chocolate!" He provided the voice of the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee in the 1980s and also spoke for Vicks Vapo-Rub.

His wife, Joanne Stang, is a writer for the New York Times. An ad for an Atwater Kent radio receiver, in the September 1926 issue of Ladies Home Journal. ... Don Quixote and Sancho Panza unsuccessfully confront windmills. ... Henry Morgan (March 31, 1915 - May 19, 1994), born in New York City, was a comedian best remembered for having been a regular panelist on the CBS game show Ive Got a Secret. ... Milton Berle This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Texaco Star Theater, a comedy-variety show (radio, 1940-49; television, 1949-56), was one of the first hugely successful examples of U.S. television broadcasting. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 film which tells the story of a heroin addict who got clean while in prison but struggles to stay straight in the outside world. ... Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is one of the most highly acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time. ... Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a comedy movie that followed the Hollywood trend in the 1960s of producing gigantic and epic films as a way to woo audiences into movie theaters. ... Marvin Kaplan (born January 24, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York) is a character actor and voice artist. ... Jonathan Winters (born November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American comedic actor. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and Republican politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Hercules in New York is a 1970, known today principaly (or only) for being the first film featuring actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) moving picture for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). ... A Popeye comic book cover shows Popeye, with his characteristic corncob pipe and single good eye, and his girlfriend Olive Oyl. ... Herman and Katnip are a duo of cartoon characters (Herman the mouse and Katnip the cat), who have appeared both separately and together in Famous Studios cartoons from 1943 to 1959. ... Famous Studios was the animation studio owned by Paramount Pictures after the company foreclosed on Fleischer Studios and ousted Max and Dave Fleischer in 1942. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... Top Cat. ... Phil Silvers TV Guide cover Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. ... Opening Logo The Phil Silvers Show (also known as Youll Never Get Rich and Sergeant Bilko) was a comedy television series which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959. ... Misterjaw is a 34-episode made-for-television cartoon series, produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1976 for The Pink Panther and Friends television series on NBC. Misterjaw (voiced by Arte Johnson) was a blue German accented shark(with a purple vest with white collar, a bow tie and tall... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Nestlé Chunky is a candy bar known for its distinctive thick trapezoid shape, consisting of milk chocolate with raisins and roasted peanuts. ... Honey Nut Cheerios Honey Nut Cheerios is a flavor and spin-off brand of Cheerios breakfast cereal, introduced in 1979 by General Mills. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Stang actually began his career when he was nine years old, in such radio shows 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 voice was his meal-ticket. "I'm kind of attached to hit," he quipped to Nachman. "(It's 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, even though Top Cat still appears periodically on cable television and Berle's show became such an icon. "It's all about my radio career," he said.

External links

• Arnold Stang at the Internet Movie Database
• Arnold Stang at TV.com