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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Kenneth Mars (1936 - ) Actor Born: 1936, Chicago, IL Education: Northwestern University, IL (speech) Over-the-top comedic character actor whose histrionics have provided some memorable moments in films and television. Mars burst on the cinematic scene as the unrepentant Nazi author of Springtime for Hitler, the musical centerpiece of Mel Brooks hilarious romp THE PRODUCERS (1968). Mars served his acting apprenticeship in a variety of stock roles and national touring companies before appearing on Broadway in the mid-1960s,. He quickly moved to the small screen landing a regular role on the highly rated but short-lived Richard Benjamin-Paula Prentiss sitcom He and She (1967-68). In between movie roles, Mars showed up on a number of variety and comedy specials, including a stint as a regular on the short-lived Carol Burnett and Company (ABC, 1979), several pilots that went unsold, the occasional TV movie, and numerous animated series, such as Aventuras de la Familia Picapiedra (1980-81), The New Jetsons (1985-86), Darkwing Duck y The Little Mermaid (1992-95). Since THE PRODUCERS (1968), Mars has provided outrageous performances in such comedies as Peter Bogdanovich ¿QUE PASA DIRECTOR? (1972) as a German-accented swell, Mel Brooks gothic comedy, EL JOVEN FRANKESTEIN (1974), as a heavily accented Transylvanian police officer, and as the slap-happy rabbi in Woody Allen DÍAS DE RADIO (1987). Mars played the marshal in BUTCH CASSIDY (1969) and Bogdanovich cast Mars again in his less successful romantic comedy ILEGALMENTE TUYO (1988). Mars has also had many opportunities to show a more serious side. He got favorable notices as Shirley Mac Laine husband in Frank D. Gilroy dark vision of urban life, RELACIONES DESESPERADAS (1971), played a former FBI agent in Alan J. Pakula political thriller THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974), and was Lyndon B. Johnson in a docudrama about John F. Kennedy, PRINCE JACK (1984). Mars provided the voice of Triton for Disney's animated classic, THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989), and played a magician who takes Woody Allen on as an apprentice in SOMBRAS Y NIEBLA (1992).
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