Alan Carney
Alan Carney
Chubby, rubber-faced comedian Alan Carney knocked around vaudeville for years as a comic dialectician. After making his first film, 1941's Convoy, Carney signed a contract at RKO, appearing in choice supporting roles in such films as Mr. Lucky (1943). In 1943, Carney was teamed with Wally Brown (see entry 9048) as RKO's answer to Abbott and Costello. In addition to their inexpensive starring vehicles, Brown and Carney co-starred in Step Lively (1943), a musical remake of the Marx Bros.' Room Service (1938) (Wally played Chico's part, while Carney filled in for Harpo; the "Groucho" role was essayed by, of all people, Adolphe Menjou). Brown and Carney were also featured on a live USO tour arranged by the studio. After 1946's Genius at Work, RKO terminated the team's contracts. Alan Carney continued in films and TV as a supporting player, working prolifically at Disney Studios in the 1960s and 1970s; one of Carney's best latter-day roles was as Mayor Dawgmeat in the 1959 film musical Li'l Abner. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Alan Carney:
- Son of Flubber with Fred MacMurray , Nancy Olson , Keenan Wynn , Tommy Kirk , Charles Ruggles , Leon Ames , Ken Murray , William Demarest , Paul Lynde , Elliott Reid , Joanna Moore , Edward Andrews , James Westerfield , Stuart Erwin , Alan Hewitt , Jack Albertson , Joe Flynn , Byron K. Foulger , Gordon Jones , Harvey Korman , J. Pat O'Malley , Jack Rice , Robert Shayne , Hal Smith
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with Spencer Tracy , Milton Berle , Sid Caesar , Buddy Hackett , Mickey Rooney , Ethel Merman , Phil Silvers , Dick Shawn , Jimmy Durante , Buster Keaton , Jonathan Winters , Edie Adams , Dorothy Provine , Eddie "Rochester" Anderson , Ben Blue , William Demarest , Peter Falk , Paul Ford , Leo Gorcey , Edward Everett Horton , Don Knotts , Carl Reiner , Andy Devine , Sterling Holloway , Marvin Kaplan , Charles Lane , Charles McGraw , ZaSu Pitts , Madlyn Rhue , Arnold Stang , Jesse White , Lloyd Corrigan , Norman Fell , Jim Backus , Paul Birch , Joe E. Brown , Chick Chandler , Stanley Clements , Howard DaSilva , Joe DeRita , Larry Fine , Don Harvey , Moe Howard , Allen Jenkins , Harry Lauter , Mike Mazurki , Barbara Pepper , Roy Roberts , Terry-Thomas , Doodles Weaver , Jerry Lewis , Tom Kennedy
- North to Alaska with John Wayne , Stewart Granger , Ernie Kovacs , Fabian , Capucine , Mickey Shaughnessy , Karl Swenson , Kathleen Freeman , John Qualen , Douglas Dick , Frank Faylen , Fred Graham , Rayford Barnes , Esther Dale , Richard Deacon , James Griffith , Paul Maxey , Kermit Maynard , Joseph Sawyer
- The Comancheros with John Wayne , Stuart Whitman , Ina Balin , Nehemiah Persoff , Lee Marvin , Michael Ansara , Bruce Cabot , Joan O'Brien , Jack Elam , Edgar Buchanan , Henry Daniell , Richard Devon , John Dierkes , Bob Steele , Don Brodie , Harry Jr. Carey , George J. Lewis , Patrick Wayne , Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
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