Marvin Kaplan
Marvin Kaplan
Owl-eyed, adenoidal character actor Marvin Kaplan became an English teacher after studying at New York University and Brooklyn College. Following World War II service, Kaplan attended playwrighting classes at USC, which led to his participation in community theatre. It was Katharine Hepburn who selected Kaplan for the small but telling role of the hapless court stenographer in Adam's Rib (1949). He continued accepting movie and TV supporting parts in the 1950s, usually playing bookish, bespectacled milquetoasts. He is best known to TV sitcom fans as Henry Beesemeyer on the weekly yockfest Alice (1976-1985). Two generations of cartoon fans remember Marvin Kaplan as the voice of Choo Choo on the Hanna-Barbera series Top Cat, a role he has continued to reprise on such animated series as Yogi's Treasure Hunt and Wake, Rattle and Roll into the 1990s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Marvin Kaplan:
- 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 , Charles McGraw , ZaSu Pitts , Madlyn Rhue , Arnold Stang , Jesse White , Lloyd Corrigan , Norman Fell , Jim Backus , Joe E. Brown , Stanley Clements , Howard DaSilva , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , Allen Jenkins , Harry Lauter , Mike Mazurki , Roy Roberts , Terry-Thomas , Doodles Weaver , Jerry Lewis
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