1. Kenneth Mars appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein.
19 Facts About Kenneth Mars
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Kenneth Mars 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.
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Kenneth Mars was the voice of Tuskernini from Darkwing Duck.
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Kenneth Mars's father, Bernard "Sonny" Mars, was a radio and television personality.
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Kenneth Mars appeared in dramatic roles such as Will Turner, a former FBI agent, in Warren Beatty's The Parallax View.
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Kenneth Mars was featured in a number of small roles in broadcasts such as the Misfits of Science pilot episode and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Shadowplay".
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From 1970 to 1974, Kenneth Mars guest starred in five episodes of Love, American Style, playing various characters.
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Kenneth Mars continued the role on the revamped America 2-Night in 1978.
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In 2001, Kenneth Mars portrayed a comedic famous but washed-up photographer on Just Shoot Me.
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In 1969, Kenneth Mars portrayed a marshal trying to raise a posse to pursue Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, only to have his address to the townsfolk hijacked by a friendly bicycle salesman.
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Kenneth Mars appeared in the 1962 Broadway play The Affair.
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Kenneth Mars cultivated a lengthy voice acting career, launching it by voicing several characters on Uncle Croc's Block.
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Kenneth Mars voiced the roles of Ariel's father King Triton in The Little Mermaid and in the video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II.
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Kenneth Mars played some minor roles on the popular radio show, Adventures in Odyssey.
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Kenneth Mars played Sweet William in Fievel's American Tails, which took place after An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
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Kenneth Mars voiced characters on many animated television series, such as The Smurfs, The Biskitts, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, TaleSpin, and as Ludwig van Beethoven in the Animaniacs episode sketch "Roll Over, Beethoven", as well as video games such as Fallout and Kingdom Hearts.
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In 2008, Kenneth Mars retired from acting after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years prior.
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In 2006, Kenneth Mars was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that had already spread beyond his pancreas.
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Kenneth Mars's cancer made him so ill that he could not reprise his role as King Triton for The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, so Jim Cummings took over the role.