Arnold Stang

Arnold Stang, born in Manhattan in 1918 and raised in Brooklyn, was an American actor and comedian who worked in radio, television, film and animation voice-over for seven decades. He began acting in radio at nine and appeared on children's programs before graduating to teen roles on The Goldbergs by 1940. He moved into television in the late 1940s and became the voice of Top Cat in the Hanna-Barbera series that ran from 1961 to 1962. On film he played Sparrow in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and a gas station owner in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Later credits included Hercules in New York (1970), Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977), Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988), Ghost Dad (1990) and Dennis the Menace (1993). He also voiced characters for cartoons such as Misterjaw and Courage the Cowardly Dog. He died in 2009.