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5 unusual facts about Art Carney


Drivin' My Life Away

The song, a look into the life of the roadies and the long periods of time they spend away from home, was featured on the soundtrack of the 1980 movie Roadie starring Meat Loaf and Art Carney.

Susan McCray

McCray cast Art Carney in the film Where Pigeons Go to Die, for which role Carney received an Emmy nomination.

The Art Carney Special

The Art Carney Special is a comedy television series starting Art Carney as Axel Heist that aired on NBC from 1959 until 1961.

With a Little Luck

It was featured in the closing credits of the 1979 film Sunburn starring Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin and Art Carney.

Zoom Daddy

# "Art Carney's Dream" (Words and music by Terry Taylor, David Raven, Tim Chandler and Jerry Chamberlain)


Barnard Hughes

He was the central character in three sitcoms: Doc, which ran on CBS from 1975–77, where he played a physician; Mr. Merlin, in which he played Merlin, a magician mentoring a 20th-century teenager; and The Cavanaughs, co-starring Christine Ebersole, in which he played the family patriarch (Art Carney played his brother, and Glynis Johns made guest appearances).

Bruce Stark

His caricature originals have been requested by many of his subjects, including Art Carney, Xavier Cugat, Buddy Hackett, Suzanne Pleshette, Priscilla Presley and Ted Williams.

Give and Tyke

The main protagonist, a hungry dog (whose voice resembles Art Carney's portrayal of Ed Norton from The Honeymooners) is humming the theme song of Tom and Jerry.

Going in Style

Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in Brooklyn, New York City.

Greenwich Savings Bank

The film Going in Style starring George Burns and Art Carney also used this location in the scene where they robbed a bank.

Henry Morgan's Great Talent Hunt

The first format for the Morgan show was a take-off on The Original Amateur Hour with Morgan as host, and featuring Kaye Ballard (in her TV debut), Art Carney, Pert Kelton, and Arnold Stang.

Joyce Randolph

Randolph is the last surviving member of the famous Honeymooners quartet, which included Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden, Art Carney as Ed Norton, Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden (after replacing a blacklisted Pert Kelton), and Randolph as Trixie Norton.

Martin Brest

His major studio debut was 1979's Going in Style, which starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg, the first of several films to mix action and comedy to great effect.


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Josh Greenfeld

Josh Greenfeld (born 1928) is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky, which earned them an Academy Award nomination and its star, Art Carney, the Oscar itself for Best Actor.