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Kenneth Mars

Kenneth Mars
Kenneth Mars
Born: 1936 in Chicago, Illinois
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-'90s
Major Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
Career Highlights: The Little Mermaid, The Producers, What's Up, Doc?
First Major Screen Credit: He & She: Season 01 (1967)
22 Videos for Kenneth Mars
The Land Before Time: The Great Longneck Migration (2003) Get Smart, Again! (1989) Misfits of Science (1985)
The Land Before Time: The Big Freeze (2001) Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) Protocol (1984)
The Land Before Time IV: The Journey Through the Mists (1996) The Little Mermaid (1989) Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995) Illegally Yours (1988) Paper Moon (1973)
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994) Radio Days (1987) What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Thumbelina (1994) Beer (1985) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) Fletch (1985) The Producers (1968)
Shadows and Fog (1991)
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Biography:

Over-the-top comic actor Kenneth Mars made an unbearably funny screen debut as the ex-Nazi playwright responsible for the smash miss Springtime for Hitler in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968). He was just as exaggerated, though not quite as amusing, as the one-armed police inspector in Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974).

Mars seemingly never held anything back, a trait that was prized by his admirers but caused discomfort among his detractors: reviewing the actor's performance in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), Jay Cocks noted, As a pompous middle-European intellectual, Kenneth Mars mugs and drools in a manner that Jerry Lewis might find excessive.

Still, Mars nearly always delivered the laughs -- especially on TV, where he was a regular on such programs as He and She and The Carol Burnett Show. Another of his screen appearances was as a remonstrative rabbi in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1986). Kenneth Mars has also provided voices for dozens of TV cartoon shows, wherein he has sometimes been subject to the indignity of having his name spelled Len Mars in the credits.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.