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| Fine art Carney | |
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 Carney in 1959 | |
| Born | Arthur William Matthew Carney (1918-xi-04)November four, 1918 Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November ix, 2003(2003-11-09) (aged 85) Chester, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Resting place | Riverside Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, U.Southward. |
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| Years active | 1939–1993 |
| Spouse(southward) | Jean Myers (m. 1940; div. 1965) (m. 1980) Barbara Isaac (m. 1966; div. 1977) |
| Children | 3 |
| Family | Reeve Carney (great-nephew) |
| Military career | |
| Fidelity |  United States |
| Service/ |  United States Regular army |
| Years of service | 1943–1945[ane] |
| Rank |  Private |
| Unit | 28th Infantry Segmentation[1] |
| Battles/wars | Globe War II
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| Awards |  Royal Heart American Campaign Medal European–African–Center Eastern Campaign Medal World State of war Ii Victory Medal |
Arthur William Matthew Carney (Nov 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American histrion and comedian. A recipient of an University Award, a Golden Globe Honour, and six Primetime Emmy Awards, Carney was all-time known for his role as Ed Norton on the sitcom The Honeymooners (1955–1956).
His picture roles include Harry and Tonto (1974), The Late Bear witness (1977), Business firm Calls (1978), Going in Style (1979) Firestarter, The Muppets Take Manhattan (both 1984), and Concluding Activity Hero (1993).
Early life [edit]
Carney, the youngest of six sons (his brothers were Jack, Ned, Robert, Fred, and Phil), was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of Helen (née Farrell) and Edward Michael Carney, who was a newspaperman and publicist.[ commendation needed ] His family was Irish American and Catholic.[2] He attended A.B. Davis High School.[three]
Carney was drafted into the United States Ground forces in 1943[one] as an infantryman and machine gun crewman during World War II. During the Boxing of Normandy serving in the 28th Infantry Division,[1] he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel and walked with a limp for the balance of his life. Equally a result of the injury, his right leg was ¾-inch (two cm) shorter than his left.[4] Carney was awarded a Regal Centre, the American Campaign Medal, the European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and the World War Two Victory Medal, and was discharged every bit a private in 1945.[1]
Career [edit]
Radio [edit]
Carney was a comic singer with the Horace Heidt orchestra, which was heard often on radio during the 1930s, notably on the hugely successful Pot o' Gold, the get-go big-coin giveaway show in 1939–41. Carney's motion-picture show career began with an uncredited office in Pot o' Gold (1941), the radio program's spin-off feature picture show, playing a member of Heidt's band. Carney, a gifted mimic, worked steadily in radio during the 1940s, playing grapheme roles and impersonating celebrities such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. He can be seen impersonating FDR in a 1937 promotional film for Stewart-Warner refrigerators that is preserved by the Library of Congress and available on YouTube.[5] besides as during his appearance as a Mystery Guest on What's My Line too available on YouTube.[half-dozen] In 1941, he was the house comic on the big ring remote serial, Matinee at Meadowbrook.
Ane of his radio roles during the 1940s was the first Ruddy Lantern on Land of the Lost. In 1943 he played Billy Oldham on Joe and Ethel Turp, based on Damon Runyon stories. He appeared on The Henry Morgan Prove in 1946–47. He impersonated Franklin D. Roosevelt on The March of Time and Dwight D. Eisenhower on Living 1948. In 1950–51 he played Montague'southward begetter on The Magnificent Montague. He was a supporting actor on Casey, Crime Photographer and Gang Busters.
Television set [edit]
Carney on his multifariousness show Fine art Carney Special (1959)
On both the radio and boob tube versions of The Morey Amsterdam Show (1948–l), Carney's character Charlie the doorman became known for his catchphrase, "Ya know what I mean?"
In 1950, Jackie Gleason was starring in the New York–based comedy-variety serial Column of Stars and played many different characters. Gleason'due south regular characters included Charlie Bratten, a lunchroom loudmouth who insisted on spoiling a neighboring patron'southward meal. Carney, established in New York as a reliable actor, played Bratten'due south mild-mannered victim, Clem Finch. Gleason and Carney adult a good working chemistry, and Gleason recruited Carney to appear in other sketches, including the domestic-comedy skits featuring The Honeymooners. Carney gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's bus driver, Ralph Kramden. The success of these skits resulted in the famous situation comedy The Honeymooners, and the Honeymooners revivals that followed. He was nominated for seven Emmy Awards and won six.
Betwixt his stints with Gleason, Carney worked steadily as a character thespian and occasionally in musical-diversity. He guest-starred on NBC's Henry Morgan'south Great Talent Hunt (1951), The Dinah Shore Chevy Testify, and many others, including every bit a mystery invitee four times on What's My Line? which he attended (once) dressed every bit Ed Norton. Carney too had his own NBC television variety evidence from 1959 to 1960.
In 1958, he starred in an ABC children's television special Fine art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf, which featured the Bil Baird Marionettes. It combined an original story with a marionette presentation of Serge Prokofiev'southward Peter and the Wolf. Some of Prokofiev's other music was given lyrics written by Ogden Nash. The special was a success and was repeated twice.
Carney starred in a Christmas episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Night of the Meek", playing a dramatic turn equally an alcoholic department shop Santa Claus who subsequently becomes the existent thing. In 1964, he guest-starred in the episode "Smelling Like a Rose" along with Hal March and Tina Louise in the CBS drama Mr. Broadway, starring Craig Stevens. In the season two opening episodes 35 and 36 of the Batman television serial, titled "Shoot a Crooked Pointer" and "Walk the Directly and Narrow" (1966), Carney performed every bit the newly introduced villain "The Archer".
In 1970, Carney appeared as Skeet in "The Men from Shiloh" (the rebranded name of The Virginian) in the episode titled "With Love, Bullets and Valentines." In the early 1970s, Carney sang and danced on several episodes of The Dean Martin Show, took role in the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast of his old co-star Jackie Gleason, and appeared as both Santa Claus and his wannabe kidnapper Cosmo Scam in the 1970 Muppets Boob tube special The Nifty Santa Claus Switch.[seven] [8] He was also a guest star on The Carol Burnett Show in January 1971.
He starred every bit Police Master Paul Lanigan in the 1976 television moving picture Lanigan's Rabbi, and in the curt-lived serial of the aforementioned proper noun that aired in 1977 equally part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Moving picture lineup.[ix]
In 1978, Carney appeared in Star Wars Vacation Special, a television flick that was linked to the Star Wars film series. In information technology, he played Trader Saun Dann, a member of the Rebel Alliance who helped Chewbacca and his family unit evade an Royal blockade. The aforementioned year, he appeared equally the father of Ringo Starr'due south alter ego "Ognir Rrats" in the made for television special "Ringo". Carney appeared on an episode of Alice.
In 1980, he starred in the Idiot box film Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story. In 1984, he portrayed Santa Claus in the holiday television film The Nighttime They Saved Christmas.
Among his final television roles were a serial of commercials for Coca-Cola in which he played a homo enjoying a day out with his grandson played by actor Brian Bonsall, including a famous Christmas commercial based around the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York.
Recordings [edit]
Carney recorded prolifically in the 1950s for Columbia Records. 2 of his hits were "The Vocal of the Sewer", sung in grapheme as Norton, and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", a spoken-word record in which Carney, accompanied only past a jazz drummer, recited the famous Yuletide poem in syncopation. Some of Carney's recordings were comedy-novelty songs, but near were silly songs intended especially for children.
He besides narrated a version of The Sorcerer of Oz for Golden Records, with Mitch Miller and his chorus performing 4 of the songs from the 1939 film version.
Films [edit]
Carney won the Academy Honor for Best Player for his 1974 performance as Harry Coombes, an elderly man going on the road with his pet cat, in Harry and Tonto. Other nominees that year were Albert Finney, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Al Pacino. It was presented to him at the 47th University Awards on April eight, 1975, by actress Glenda Jackson, with whom Carney went on to co-star in the comedy House Calls in 1978. Carney also won a Aureate Globe award for his performance in Harry and Tonto.
In demand in Hollywood subsequently that, Carney and so appeared in W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (equally a deranged preacher), The Late Bear witness (every bit an aging detective), House Calls (every bit a senile chief surgeon), Movie Moving picture (in multiple roles), and Going in Style (equally a bored senior denizen who joins in on bank robberies). Later films included The Muppets Have Manhattan, the criminal offense drama The Naked Face, and the sci-fi thriller Firestarter.
In 1981, he portrayed Harry R. Truman, an 83-twelvemonth-old lodge owner in the semi-fictional account of events leading to the eruption of Mount St. Helens in St. Helens.
His final picture part was in the 1993 action comedy pic Last Activity Hero.
Broadway [edit]
Carney made his Broadway debut in 1957 equally the atomic number 82 in The Rope Dancers with Siobhan McKenna, a drama by Morton Wishengrad. His subsequent Broadway appearances included his portrayal in 1965–67 of Felix Unger in The Odd Couple (opposite Walter Matthau and then Jack Klugman equally Oscar). In 1969 he was nominated for a Tony Award for his operation in Brian Friel's Lovers. In 1961–62, Carney played Frank Michaelson in an English one-act by Phoebe & Henry Ephron titled Accept Her, She'southward Mine with Phyllis Thaxter equally his co-star in the Biltmore Theatre in New York; the character was played by James Stewart in the 1963 film version.
Personal life [edit]
Carney was married three times to two women. In 1940, he married his loftier school sweetheart Jean Myers, with whom he had three children, Eileen, Brian and Paul, before divorcing in 1965. In 1966, Carney married production assistant Barbara Isaac; they divorced in 1977. Afterwards his divorce from Isaac, he reunited with Myers. They remarried in 1980 and remained together until his death.[10] [11] His neat-nephew is musician and thespian Reeve Carney.
According to Carney, he was an alcoholic by his late teens. His stage partner, comedian Ollie O'Toole, "would order gin and grapefruit juice for us in the morning time and, gee, it was great." Carney subsequently used barbiturates, amphetamines, and alcohol substitutes. To battle his addiction, which he said ran in the family, he tried psychotherapy and joined Alcoholics Bearding. He finally found success with Antabuse and quit drinking during the filming of Harry and Tonto. [4]
Death [edit]
Carney died in his sleep, of natural causes, on November ix, 2003, at his home in Chester, Connecticut.[10] [11] He is interred at Riverside Cemetery in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Jean Carney died nine years later on, on October 31, 2012, at the historic period of 93.[12]
Filmography [edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Pot o' Gilded | Band member / Radio Announcer | Uncredited |
| 1950 | PM Picnic | The Narrator | |
| 1964 | The Yellowish Rolls-Royce | Joey Friedlander | |
| 1967 | A Guide for the Hubby | "Joe Ten", Married Human | |
| 1972 | The Snoop Sisters: 'Female Instinct' | Barney | with Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick |
| 1974 | Harry and Tonto | Harry Coombes | Academy Award for All-time Actor Golden Globe Honour for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1975 | W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | Deacon John Wesley Gore | |
| Death Scream | Mr. Jacobs | Telly movie (aka Street Kill) | |
| Katherine | Thornton Alman | Television set movie | |
| 1976 | Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood | J.J. Fromberg | |
| 1977 | The Belatedly Show | Ira Wells | National Guild of Moving-picture show Critics Honor for Best Actor |
| Scott Joplin | John Stark | ||
| 1978 | Firm Calls | Dr. Amos Willoughby | |
| Movie Movie | Dr. Blaine / Dr. Bowers | (segment "Dynamite Hands") / (segment Baxter's Beauties of 1933") | |
| Star Wars Vacation Special | Trader Saun Dann | ||
| 1979 | Ravagers | Sergeant | |
| You lot Can't Take It With You | Grandpa Martin Vanderhof | ||
| Steel | "Pignose" Moran | ||
| Sunburn | Marcus | ||
| Going in Style | Al | Pasinetti Accolade for All-time Role player | |
| 1980 | Defiance | Abe | |
| Roadie | Corpus C. Redfish | ||
| Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Robert Stroud | TV movie | |
| Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story | Art Rooney | TV movie | |
| 1981 | Bitter Harvest | Walter Peary | TV movie |
| Take This Chore and Shove It | Charlie Pickett | ||
| St. Helens | Harry Truman | ||
| The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold | The Narrator / Blarney Kilakilarney | Telly flick, Voice | |
| 1982 | Better Late Than Never | Charley Dunbar | |
| 1983 | The Last Leaf | Mr. Behrman | |
| 1984 | Terrible Joe Moran | Tony | TV movie |
| Firestarter | Irv Manders | ||
| The Naked Confront | Morgens | ||
| The Muppets Take Manhattan | Bernard Crawford | ||
| The Nighttime They Saved Christmas | Santa Claus | TV movie | |
| 1985 | The Undergrads | Mel Adler | |
| Izzy and Moe | Moe Smith | Idiot box movie | |
| The Blueish Yonder | Henry Coogan | TV movie | |
| 1986 | Phenomenon of the Middle: A Boys Town Story | Father Michael T. O'Halloran | |
| 1987 | Night Friend | Monsignor O'Brien | |
| 1990 | Where Pigeons Go to Die | Da | Nominated — Primetime Emmy Honour for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Picture |
| 1993 | Last Action Hero | Frank | (final film role) |
Awards and tributes [edit]
- Carney won the Academy Honor for All-time Actor for his 1974 performance as Harry Coombes, an elderly man going on the road with his pet true cat, in Harry and Tonto. Other nominees that year were Albert Finney, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Al Pacino. It was presented to him at the 47th University Awards on Apr eight, 1975, by extra Glenda Jackson, with whom Carney went on to co-star in the one-act House Calls in 1978.
- Fine art Carney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Television Category at 6627 Hollywood Boulevard, awarded on 8 February 1960.[13]
- In 1954 the Lath of Directors of the Florida H2o and Sewage Works Operators Clan (at present the Florida Water and Pollution Control Operators Association) unanimously passed a resolution that Carney exist granted an Honorary Life Membership in the Association in recognition for his constant humorous reminders to the American public that sewage systems exercise exist.
- While starring in The Odd Couple on Broadway, Carney'southward caricature was fatigued for walls of Sardi'south Eatery.[14]
- In 2002, Carney was portrayed past Michael Chieffo in Gleason, a 2002 goggle box biopic about the life of his Honeymooners co-star Jackie Gleason.[15]
- In 2004, Carney was posthumously inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
- Jackie Gleason said that Carney deserved 90 percent of the credit for the success of The Honeymooners.[16]
- The city of Yonkers, New York, named the corner of Margaret Ave. and Westchester Ave. as Fine art Carney Place, because Carney once lived in the urban center.
In pop culture [edit]
- Carney is referenced twice in the song "Celebrity Fine art Party" by American band The Embarrassment.
- In 1994, the music group The Swirling Eddies named a vocal after Carney on their anthology Zoom Daddy titled "Art Carney'southward Dream."
- Carney is portrayed by Michael Chieffo in the Jackie Gleason Tv biopic Gleason.
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d e Carney, Arthur William, Pvt. army.togetherweserved.com. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ "'Honeymooners' actor Art Carney dies." China Daily, Beijing. 12 November 2003.
- ^ Art Carney Yahoo! Movies: Biography Archived May 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Wilkins, Barbara. Fine art Carney Wins in a Picture show—and Over Alcoholism. People magazine, Vol. ii, Outcome 17 via Net Archive. Published Oct 21, 1974. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
- ^ Stewart-Warner Refrigerator Sales Motion picture. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2021-11-17 – via YouTube.
- ^ What's My Line? - Walter Cronkite; Art Carney; PANEL: Steve Allen, Anne Douglas (Mar 27, 1966). Archived from the original on 2021-eleven-17 – via YouTube.
- ^ "The Great Santa Claus Switch (TV Movie 1970)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2021-01-03. Retrieved 2018-08-27 .
- ^ "The Great Santa Claus Switch". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-01-03. Retrieved 2018-08-27 .
- ^ "The Museum of Broadcast Communications - Encyclopedia of Television". museum.tv. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
- ^ a b Severo, Richard (November 12, 2003). "Art Carney, Lauded for 'Honeymooners', Dies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 21, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
- ^ a b McLellan, Dennis (Nov xi, 2003). "Actor Art Carney dead at 85". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved November xiii, 2020.
- ^ "Jean Carney Obituary". Dignity Memorial - Swan Funeral Home. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
- ^ "Art Carney". 25 October 2019.
- ^ Sardi, Jr., Vincent; Thomas Edward W (1991). Off the Wall at Sardi's . Applause Books. p. 97. ISBN978-1557830517. Archived from the original on 2021-01-03. Retrieved 2020-11-24 .
- ^ Gallo, Phil (10 Oct 2002). "Gleason". Diverseness. Archived from the original on 11 Dec 2017. Retrieved ten December 2017.
- ^ McLellan, Dennis (November 12, 2003). "From the Archives: 'Honeymooners' Sidekick Fine art Carney Dies". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
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