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Marvin Kaplan is a Actor American born on 24 january 1927 at Brooklyn (USA)

Marvin Kaplan

Marvin Kaplan
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Nationality USA
Birth 24 january 1927 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 25 august 2016 (at 89 years)

Marvin Kaplan (born January 24, 1927) is an American character actor and voice artist.

Biography

Repéré par Katharine Hepburn, Marvin Kaplan débute au cinéma — un petit rôle non-crédité — dans Madame porte la culotte de George Cukor (aux côtés de l'actrice et de Spencer Tracy), sorti en 1949.

Il contribue à seulement vingt-quatre autres films américains — le dernier sorti en 2012 —, dont Une rousse obstinée de Melvin Frank et Norman Panama (1950, avec June Allyson et Dick Powell), La Fille à la casquette de Melville Shavelson (1963, avec Paul Newman et Joanne Woodward), Un vendredi dingue, dingue, dingue de Gary Nelson (1976, avec Barbara Harris et Jodie Foster), ou encore Sailor et Lula de David Lynch (1990, avec Nicolas Cage et Laura Dern).

À la télévision, entre 1950 et 2005 (à ce jour), Marvin Kaplan collabore à onze téléfilms et cinquante-sept séries. En particulier, il prête sa voix au chat Choo-Choo (Chouchou en version française) pour la série d'animation Le Pacha (vingt-neuf épisodes, 1961-1962), puis pour le téléfilm y faisant suite Le Pacha et les Chats de Beverly Hills (1987, où il est doublé par Serge Lhorca).

Parmi ses autres séries, citons La Nouvelle Équipe (deux épisodes, 1969), la sitcom Alice (quatre-vingt-deux épisodes, 1978-1985), et On the Air (intégrale en sept épisodes, 1992).

Par ailleurs très actif au théâtre, Marvin Kaplan joue surtout ces dernières années au Theatre West d'Hollywood, entre autres dans la pièce d'Arthur Miller The Price , représentée en 2010. De plus, il participe à des pièces radiodiffusées produites par le California Artists Radio Theatre (abrégé CART et basé lui-aussi à Hollywood), dont Arsenic et vieilles dentelles de Joseph Kesselring (1993, avec Jeanette Nolan et Kathleen Freeman dans les rôles principaux) et Alice au pays des merveilles, d'après le roman éponyme de Lewis Carroll (1994, avec Samantha Eggar dans le rôle-titre, Roddy McDowall, Jeanette Nolan et Norman Lloyd, notamment).

Usually with

Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
(2 films)
King Donovan
King Donovan
(3 films)
Sol Gorss
Sol Gorss
(2 films)
Allen Jenkins
Allen Jenkins
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Marvin Kaplan (22 films)

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Actor

Dark and Stormy Night, 1h33
Directed by Larry Blamire
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Actors Brian Howe, Fay Masterson, Jim Beaver, James Karen, Daniel Roebuck, Larry Blamire
Roles Gunny
Rating65% 3.2923553.2923553.2923553.2923553.292355
On a dark and stormy night in the 1930s, a number of people gather at an isolated country estate to hear the reading of the will of the wealthy Sinas Cavinder, including: wealthy nephew Burling Famish Jr. (Brian Howe) and his wife Pristy (Christine Romeo); Pristy's dim-witted lover Teak Armbruster (Kevin Quinn); big-game hunter Jack Tugdon (Jim Beaver); the foppish Lord Partfine (Andrew Parks); elderly Mrs. Hausenstout (Betty Garrett); kindly Seyton Ethelquake (James Karen); and the fragile Sabasha Fanmoore (Fay Masterson), Cavinder's ward.
Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway, 1h38
Directed by Kevin Tenney
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Ami Dolenz, Laraine Newman, John Gatins, Timothy Gibbs, Marvin Kaplan
Roles Morris
Rating50% 2.5040052.5040052.5040052.5040052.504005
Paige (Ami Dolenz), a beautiful artist moves into a new apartment. She starts receiving messages through a Ouija board, claiming to be from the former occupant of her apartment, Susan Sydney. The former tenant claims she's been murdered, but there's no record of a murder or even her death. Paige sets out to solve the murder and as she gets closer to solving Susan's death, the death toll rises. Paige soon fears she might be next.
Delirious
Delirious (1991)
, 1h32
Directed by Tom Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, David Rasche, Raymond Burr, Dylan Walsh
Roles Typewriter Repairman
Rating57% 2.899182.899182.899182.899182.89918
Jack Gable (Candy) is the New York City-based lead writer and producer of the soap opera "Beyond Our Dreams". Consumed by his work, he harbors an unspoken attraction to Laura Claybourne (Samms), the selfish actress playing the lead character of Rachel Hedison.
Wild at Heart, 2h4
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini
Roles Uncle Pooch
Rating71% 3.5986353.5986353.5986353.5986353.598635
Lovers Lula and Sailor are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta Fortune. Upon Sailor's release, Lula picks him up at the prison where she hands him his snakeskin jacket. They go to a hotel where she reserved a room, make love and go to see the speed metal band Powermad. At the club, Sailor gets into a fight with a man who flirts with Lula, and then leads the band in a rendition of Elvis Presley's "Love Me". Later, back in the room, after making love again, Sailor and Lula finally decide to run away to California, breaking Sailor's parole. Marietta arranges for private detective Johnnie Farragut – her on-off boyfriend – to find them and bring them back. Unbeknownst to Farragut, however, Marietta also hires gangster Marcellus Santos to track them, and kill Sailor. Santos's minions capture and kill Farragut, sending Marietta into a guilt-fueled psychosis.
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, 1h32
Directed by Ray Patterson, Charles August Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Arnold Stang, Avery Schreiber, Marvin Kaplan, Kenneth Mars, John Stephenson, Richard Erdman
Roles Choo-Choo (voice)
Rating61% 3.052563.052563.052563.052563.05256
The movie opens on what appears to be another average day in Hoagie's Alley (which, for the purposes of this story, has apparently been relocated closer to Beverly Hills) for Top Cat and his gang, who are today posing as Boy Scouts, out doing good deeds in the hopes of getting rewards. During the course of this, Benny the Ball saves the life of a bag lady. Unbeknownst to Benny, it is revealed afterwards that she is actually a rich woman named Gertrude Vandergelt, who plans to leave her fortune to her missing niece, Amy. Meanwhile, Officer Dibble arrives to put an end to T.C.'s shenanigans after an unsuccessful attempt by Brain to wash his police car's windshield. Just when Dibble is about to arrest the gang, though, he gets a call saying that his application for retirement has been approved, so he can now retire from the police force, and thus he drops the charges against T.C. and the gang.
Hollywood Vice Squad, 1h41
Directed by Penelope Spheeris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Ronny Cox, Frank Gorshin, Trish Van Devere, Carrie Fisher, Joey Travolta, Cec Verrell
Roles Man with Doll
Rating47% 2.36252.36252.36252.36252.3625
Pauline Stanton, a mother, travels to Hollywood to find her teenage runaway daughter Lori. Once there, Pauline discovers that Lori has become involved in the pornography industry and teams with the police to find her and get her back.
Midnight Madness, 1h52
Directed by Ronald William Miller, Michael Nankin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors David Naughton, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Furst, Maggie Roswell, Eddie Deezen, Andy Tennant
Roles Bonaventure Desk Clerk
Rating62% 3.145243.145243.145243.145243.14524
Leon (Alan Solomon), a genius, summons five college students to his apartment and challenges them to participate in his latest game creation: The Great All-Nighter. He tells them about his game and instructs them to form teams. At first, the leaders refuse to play. However, rivalries between them lead all five to change their minds by the game's start time.
Freaky Friday, 1h35
Directed by Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Barbara Harris, Lindsay Lohan, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Harold Gould
Roles Carpet Cleaner
Rating62% 3.148193.148193.148193.148193.14819
Ellen Andrews (Barbara Harris) and her daughter, Annabel Andrews (Jodie Foster) constantly quarrel. Following a disagreement on Friday the 13th, Annabel leaves to join a friend at a local diner. In sync, Annabel and Ellen (who is in the family home's kitchen) both wish aloud, "I wish I could switch places with her for just one day." Their wish comes true when they switch their bodies and subsequently lives.
The Severed Arm, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Crime
Actors Paul Carr, Deborah Walley, Marvin Kaplan, John Crawford
Roles Mad Man Herman
Rating49% 2.4588652.4588652.4588652.4588652.458865
A group of cave explorers are trapped by a cave-in. In order to starvation, the group cuts off the arm of one of their fellow cavers. However, moments after doing so, the entire group is rescued.
The Great Race, 2h37
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Monde imaginaire, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, William Bryant, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn
Roles Frisbee
Rating71% 3.5987253.5987253.5987253.5987253.598725
The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) and Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century. Leslie is the classic hero – always dressed in white, handsome, ever-courteous, enormously talented and successful. Leslie's nemesis, Fate, is the traditional melodramatic villain – usually dressed in black, sporting a black moustache and top hat, glowering at most everyone, maniacal evil laugh, grandiose plans to thwart the hero, and dogged by failure. Leslie proposes an automobile race from New York to Paris, to prove the ability of a new car named after him. Fate builds his own race vehicle, the Hannibal Twin-8, complete with hidden devices of sabotage. Others enter cars in the race, including New York City's most prominent newspaper. Driving the newspaper's car is beautiful photojournalist Maggie DuBois (Natalie Wood), a vocal suffragette.
The Nutty Professor, 1h47
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Kathleen Freeman, Gary Lewis, Elvia Allman, Milton Frome
Roles English Student
Rating65% 3.299463.299463.299463.299463.29946
Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, unkempt, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially inept university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and humorously destructive. When a football-playing bully humiliates and assaults him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a local gym. Kelp's lack of physical prowess prompts him to invent a serum that turns him into the handsome, extremely smooth, cool, and obnoxious girl-chasing hipster, Buddy Love.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 2h34
Directed by Stanley Kramer, Carey Loftin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard
Roles Irwin
Rating74% 3.7462153.7462153.7462153.7462153.746215
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W".
A New Kind of Love, 1h50
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, George Tobias, Marvin Kaplan
Roles Harry
Rating58% 2.904522.904522.904522.904522.90452
A womanizing American reporter assigned in Paris (Paul Newman) mistakes a cynical fashion copycat designer (Joanne Woodward) for a prostitute after she receives a makeover. He decides to interview her for a series of articles, then falls in love with her. The girl goes along with it, first out of revenge as he snubbed her during a past encounter, then out of feelings of her own.
Wake Me When It's Over, 2h6
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Transport films, Aviation films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dick Shawn, Ernie Kovacs, Darlene Tompkins, Jack Warden, Nobu McCarthy, Don Knotts
Roles Hap Cosgrove
Rating62% 3.145763.145763.145763.145763.14576
Gus Brubaker (Dick Shawn) is a self-described schnook. His wife talks him into applying for G.I. insurance for which he is eligible from his World War II service with the Air Force. Gus is reluctant because he was shot down and became a prisoner of war, but the military had listed him as killed. A red-tape foulup results in Gus being back in uniform, assigned to a ramshackle radar station on a backwater island near Japan. The airmen assigned there are apathetic, slovenly, and unmotivated. Its equipment and supplies are a collection of junk, abandoned or surplus.