Hans Conried was known for providing the voices of George Darling and Captain Hook in Walt Disney's Peter Pan, Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons, Professor Waldo P Wigglesworth in Ward's Hoppity Hooper cartoons, was host of Ward's "Fractured Flickers" and Professor Kropotkin on the radio and film versions of My Friend Irma.
20 Facts About Hans Conried
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Hans Conried appeared as Uncle Tonoose on Danny Thomas' sitcom Make Room for Daddy, and twice on I Love Lucy.
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Hans Conried's Connecticut-born mother was a descendant of Pilgrims, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, Austria.
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Hans Conried was raised in Baltimore and in New York City.
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Hans Conried studied acting at Columbia University and went on to play major classical roles onstage.
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Hans Conried trained at Fort Knox as a tank crewman until the army decided he was too tall.
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Hans Conried became a heavy mortar crewman then was sent to the Philippines as an engineer laborer until fellow actor Jack Kruschen obtained his release for service with the Armed Forces Radio Network.
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Hans Conried appeared regularly on radio during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Hans Conried was in the regular cast of Orson Welles' Ceiling Unlimited, for which he wrote the December 14,1942, episode, "War Workers".
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Hans Conried was a regular on the CBS Radio program, Life with Luigi, portraying Schultz, a German classmate.
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Hans Conried was a live action model reference for King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty and, though he was replaced by Taylor Holmes for the voice role of Stefan, he recorded a few dialogues.
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From 1955 to 1964, Hans Conried made 19 guest appearances as "Uncle Tonoose" in Make Room for Daddy on ABC and then CBS, and four appearances as other characters.
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Hans Conried hosted several episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color as the Magic Mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Hans Conried was a regular guest on Jack Paar's Tonight Show from 1959 to 1962.
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Hans Conried made his Broadway debut in the Cole Porter musical Can-Can, where he played a struggling artist and sang two musical numbers.
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Hans Conried's first leading film role was the independent science fiction comedy The Twonky in 1953.
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Two years later, Hans Conried appeared as a riverboat gambler in Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
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Hans Conried married Margaret Grant on January 29,1942; they had four children.
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Hans Conried had a long history of heart problems and suffered a stroke in 1974 and a mild heart attack in 1979.
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Hans Conried remained active until his death on January 5,1982, one day after suffering a major heart attack.