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Full Name: Arthur William Mathew Carney
Description: Actor, USA
Known For: Known for the television series – “The Honeymooners”
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 4th November 1918
Location Born: Mount Vernon, New York, United States of America
Date Died: 9th November 2003
Location Died: Chester, Connecticut, United States of America
Cause Of Death: Natural causes.
Memorial: Carney is interred at Riverside Cemetery in Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Art Carney
An American Academy Award and Emmy Award winning actor in film, stage, television and radio. Carney portrayed the upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden in the famous situation comedy The Honeymooners.
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 first big-money giveaway show in 1939-41.
In 1950 Jackie Gleason was starring in a New York-based comedy-variety series, Cavalcade of Stars, and played many different characters.
In 1950 Jackie Gleason was starring in a New York-based comedy-variety series, Cavalcade of Stars, and played many different characters.
He was nominated for seven Emmy Awards and won six.
Two of his hits were “The Song of the Sewer” and “Twas the Night Before Christmas”.
In 1974 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Harry Coombes, an elderly man going on the road with his pet cat, in Harry and Tonto.
Carney died of natural causes at a rest home near his home in Westbrook, Connecticut, five days after his 85th birthday.
Films include.
1941 Pot o’ Gold
1950 PM Picnic
1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1967 A Guide for the Married Man
1974 Harry and Tonto
1975 W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1976 Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1977 The Late Show
1977 Scott Joplin
1978 Movie Movie
1978 House Calls
1979 Going in Style
1979 Steel
1979 Sunburn
1979 Ravagers
1980 Roadie
1981 St. Helens
1981 Take This Job and Shove It
1982 Better Late Than Never
1983 The Last Leaf
1984 Firestarter
1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984 The Naked
1987 Night Friend
1993 Last Action Hero
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