1. Marvin Wilbur Kaplan was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter who was best known as Henry Beesmeyer in Alice.
17 Facts About Marvin Kaplan
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Marvin Kaplan attended Public School 16, and Junior High School 50 and graduated from Eastern District High School in 1943.
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Marvin Kaplan graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in English in 1947 and later took classes in theater at the University of Southern California.
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Marvin Kaplan was with the cast from 1977 until the series ended in 1985.
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Marvin Kaplan provided the voice of Skids on the Saturday morning cartoon CB Bears.
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Marvin Kaplan later played Mr Gordon on Becker alongside Ted Danson.
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Marvin Kaplan was the commercial spokesperson for the American cologne Eau de Love.
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Marvin Kaplan had a regular role in the radio sitcom and later television version of Meet Millie as Alfred Prinzmetal, an aspiring poet-composer.
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Marvin Kaplan joined the California Artists Radio Theatre In January 1984 and performed leading roles in over twenty 90 minute productions.
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Marvin Kaplan created two musicals for the group and one.
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Marvin Kaplan appeared in CART's Alice in Wonderland as the White Rabbit,:And In Norman Corwin's Plot to Overthrow Christmas with CART, as Nero's messenger opposite David Warner.
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Marvin Kaplan served on the Board for California Artists Radio Theatre for 32 years.
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Marvin Kaplan had a small role in the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World playing a gas station attendant alongside Arnold Stang, with whom he provided voices for the Top Cat cartoon series.
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Marvin Kaplan made a brief appearance as a carpet cleaner in the film Freaky Friday.
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For many years, Marvin Kaplan was a member of Theatre West, the oldest continually-operating theatre company in Los Angeles.
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Marvin Kaplan was married to Rosa Felsenburg, a union that ended in divorce.
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Marvin Kaplan died of natural causes in his sleep on August 25,2016.