Kenneth Mars
Born: 1935-04-04 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 2011-02-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kenneth Mars (April 4, 1935 – February 12, 2011) was an American actor. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), and Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), and Shadows and Fog (1991). Mars appeared in two seasons of Malcolm in the Middle as Otto Mannkusser, Francis's well-meaning but dimwitted boss and a German immigrant who owns a dude ranch. He voiced King Triton, Ariel's father, in the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid and its sequel, as well as its companion television series, and the Kingdom Hearts series. He also did several other animated voice-over film roles such as Littlefoot's grandfather in the Land Before Time series (up to 2008) and that of Professor Screweyes in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), and King Colbert (Prince Cornelius's father) in Thumbelina (1994). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Mars, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2019
- The Little Mermaid Live! as King Triton (voice)
2016
- The Last Laugh as Self
2006
- Hannah Montana as Gunther
- The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers as Grandpa / Parasaurlophus (voice)
- The Land Before Time: 2 DinoRiffic Adventures as Grandpa Longneck
2005
- The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses as Grandpa (voice)
- Disney Heroes Volume 1 as Old Gorilla (voice)
2003
- Oliver Beene as Carl the Super
- The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration as Grandpa (voice)
2002
- Good Morning, Miami as Marty
- The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water as Grandpa (voice)
- The Making of 'The Producers' as Self
2001
- The Legend of Tarzan as Old Gorilla (voice)
- The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze as Grandpa / Lambeosaurus (voice)
- Teddy Bears' Picnic as Gene Molinari
2000
- Malcolm in the Middle as Otto Mannkusser
- Runaway Virus as Dr. Arnold Bowman
- The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire as Grandpa (voice)
- The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea as King Triton (voice)
- How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale as Buzz
1998
- Will & Grace as Uncle Sid
- Becker as Melvin
- Godzilla: The Series
- L.A. Doctors as Bill
- The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock as Grandpa (voice)
1997
- Cow and Chicken
- Just Shoot Me! as Horst
- The Angry Beavers
- The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island as Grandpa (voice)
- Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie as Professor Von Trapp (voice) (archive footage)
1996
- Nash Bridges as Ronald Bishop
- The Pretender as Benny
- The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
- Citizen Ruth as Dr. Charlie Rollins
- Boston Common as Clown
- The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists as Grandpa (voice)
- Bruno the Kid
- Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein as Inspector Kemp (archive footage)
1995
- The Drew Carey Show as Mr. Tinsley
- The Naked Truth as Judge
- The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving as Grandpa (voice)
- Freakazoid! as Dr. Hunterhanker (voice)
- Rough Magic as Magician
1994
- Party of Five as Earl Garraty
- Duckman as Native American (voice)
- Thumbelina as King Colbert (voice)
- Weird Science
- The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure as Grandpa (voice)
1993
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Colyus
- Diagnosis: Murder as Wallace Carstairs
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Grant Gendell
- Animaniacs as Beethoven (voice)
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story as Professor Screweyes (voice)
- Mighty Max
- Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's as Reverend Pete
1992
- Batman: The Animated Series as M2 (voice)
- The Little Mermaid as King Triton (voice)
- Hangin' with Mr. Cooper as Mr. Hucklebuck
- Fievel's American Tails as Sweet William (voice)
1991
- Rugrats
- Darkwing Duck
- The Pirates of Dark Water as Additional Voices
- Mimi & Me as Uncle Al
- Shadows and Fog as Magician
1990
- TaleSpin as Heimlich Menudo (voice)
- Tom & Jerry Kids Show as Narrator (voice)
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Bobby's World
- Shades of L.A. as Uncle Louis Burton
- She'll Take Romance as Smokey
1989
- The Little Mermaid as King Triton (voice)
- Get Smart, Again! as Cmdr. Drury
- Police Academy 6: City Under Siege as Mayor
- Son of Dinosaurs
1988
- For Keeps as Mr. Bobrucz
- Rented Lips as Reverend Farrell
- Illegally Yours as Hal B. Keeler
- Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Director / Dogcatcher (voice)
- The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy as The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees
1987
- DuckTales as Auric (voice)
- A Different World as Ridley
- Radio Days as Rabbi Baumel
1986
- L.A. Law as Judge John Zimring
- The Flintstone Kids as Narrator
- Perfect Strangers as Ace Atkins
- The Adventures of the American Rabbit as Vultor / Walt (voice)
1985
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "Tooth and Consequences")
- 227
- Prince Jack as Lyndon Johnson
- Fletch as Stanton Boyd
- Misfits of Science as Sen. Donner
- Beer as A.J. Norbecker
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Hemsley Post
- Charles in Charge as Poppa Grundov
- Protocol as Lou
- The Duck Factory
1983
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- Group Madness as Self
- The Biskitts as Fetch
- Saturday Supercade as Quickclaw (voice)
- Yellowbeard as Mr. Crisp
1982
- Remington Steele as Douglas Veenhof
- Cagney & Lacey
- Tucker's Witch
- The Rules of Marriage as Red Hewitt
1981
- Simon & Simon
- Full Moon High as The Coach - Principal Cleveland
- Laverne & Shirley in the Army as Sgt. Turnbuckle
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Joseph
- The Flintstone Comedy Show as Lou Granite
1979
- The Facts of Life
- Hart to Hart
- Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo as Director
- Trapper John, M.D.
- $weepstake$
- The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again as Woolly Bill Hitchcock
- Heaven Only Knows as Bert Hammond
- Before and After as Ben Fryer
- You Can't Take it With You as Mr. Kolenkhov
- Carol Burnett & Company
1978
- Goin' Coconuts as Kruse
- Project U.F.O.
1975
- Barney Miller as Officer Callahan
- Wonder Woman as Colonel Von Blasko
- Night Moves as Nick
- It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! as Max Mencken
- The Bob Crane Show
- Someone I Touched as Paul Wrightwood
1974
- Police Woman
- Harry O as Don Yorkfield
- Young Frankenstein as Inspector Kemp
- The Parallax View as Former FBI Agent Will
- Hello Mother, Goodbye!
- Hello Mother, Goodbye! as Son
1973
- Barnaby Jones as William Tarkington IV
- Steambath as Broker
- Hawkins as Lester De Ville
- Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? as Mitchell Bernard
- Here We Go Again as Jim Sutton
1972
- Second Chance as Dr. Julius Roth
- What's Up, Doc? as Hugh Simon
- Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? as Self
1971
- Columbo as Mike
- McMillan & Wife as Dr. Thursby
- Desperate Characters as Otto Bentwood
1969
- Love, American Style as Jake
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Marshal
- Room 222
- Viva Max! as Dr. Sam Gillison
- The Debbie Reynolds Show
- The April Fools as Les Hopkins
1968
- The Ghost & Mrs. Muir as Joshua T. Albertson
- The Producers as Franz Liebkind
1967
- Ironside as Adam Bronson
- Mannix
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters
- He & She as Harry Zarakardos
1966
- That Girl
- ABC Stage 67 as Dr. Pratt
1965
1963
- Act One as Robert E. Sherwood
1955
- Gunsmoke as Clyde Hayes
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self