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Chuck McCann
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Screenwriter, Actor Born: September 2, 1936 in Queens Village, NY Biography:The son of musical arranger Val McCann, rotund American comic actor "Chuck McCann" began working up laugh-getting routines while attending high school. A nightclub performer at 17, McCann made regular, well-received appearances on "Steve Allen"'s various network programs even before he was twenty. In 1959 McCann launched a local Manhattan kid's show, "Let's Have Fun", where he hosted Laurel and Hardy comedies and read the newspaper funnies -- with appropriately zany voices for such characters as Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy. His gift for mimickry was a godsend for the many novelty records and animated cartoons for which McCann provided voiceovers (he was still a cartoon regular into the '90s). As a film actor, McCann offered a brilliant, noncomic performance in 1968's "Heart is a Lonely Hunter"; and in collaboration with his friend "Harry Hurwitz" he co-wrote and starred in a marvelous... Full Biography
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