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 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.

Arnold Stang var en amerikansk skuespiller og stemmeskuespiller, der er bedst kendt for sin rolle som Top Cat i den originale engelsksprogede version af Top Cat (1961-1962). Stang var kendt for sin karakteristiske stemme, som gav T.C. hans charmerende og snu personlighed. Udover Top Cat medvirkede Stang i en række andre tv-serier og film, ofte i mindre roller, og han var også en velkendt stemmeskuespiller i flere animationer. Stang var en alsidig skuespiller, der gjorde sig bemærket for sin evne til at spille både komiske og dramatiske roller. Arnold Stang døde den 20. november 2009, 84 år gammel, af naturlige årsager.