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Art Carney
Age: 85 (passed away Nov. 9th, 2003)
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Place: Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Born: Nov. 4th, 1918
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TRIVIA:
- Before playing Ed Norton on The Honeymooners, Carney played a cop who gets hit by a barrel of flour in the first "Honeymooners" sketch on _"The Jackie Gleason Show" (1952)_ (qv).
- He was such a talented voice artist that he sometimes substituted for President 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' (qv) in his famous "Fireside Chats" when Roosevelt was too ill to speak.
- It was while appearing in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway that Carney suffered a nervous breakdown brought on by the failure of his twenty-five-year first marriage. He was forced to leave the play and enter a sanitarium for nearly six months.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 63-65. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
- His radio role as "Philly" on the "Joe and Ethel Turp Show" foreshadowed his "Honeymooners" characterization of Ed Norton.
- Through his brother Jack, a musical booking agent, Carney landed his first show-business job in 1936, as a mimic and novelty singer for 'Horace Heidt' (qv)'s band. Due to this association with Heidt, he made his unbilled film debut with _Pot o' Gold (1941)_ (qv) as a band member and radio announcer.
- He was a voice-over regular on the popular 1930s radio series "Gangbusters" that featured weekly episodes based actual crime incidents. Each program ended with various descriptions of wanted criminals, many of whom were later arrested due to avid listener participation.
- Father of actor 'Brian Carney' (qv).
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