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Kenneth Mars
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Actor Born: 1936 in Chicago, IL 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... Full Biography
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