Kenneth Mars

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-04-04 (76 years old)

Deathday

2011-02-12

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Kenneth Mars

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 s...

Acting

1989

The Little Mermaid

as King Triton (voice)

1974

Young Frankenstein

as Inspector Kemp

1968

The Producers

as Franz Liebkind

1979

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

as Woolly Bill Hitchcock

1983

Yellowbeard

as Mr. Crisp

1972

What's Up, Doc?

as Hugh Simon

1975

2001

The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze

as Grandpa / Lambeosaurus (voice)

1988

For Keeps

as Mr. Bobrucz

1985

Fletch

as Stanton Boyd

1989

Get Smart, Again!

as Cmdr. Drury

1996

Citizen Ruth

as Dr. Charlie Rollins

1995

Rough Magic

as Magician

1969

Viva Max!

as Dr. Sam Gillison

1974

The Parallax View

as Former FBI Agent Will

1988

Illegally Yours

as Hal B. Keeler

1973

Steambath

as Broker

1969

The April Fools

as Les Hopkins

1985

Beer

as A.J. Norbecker

1981

Full Moon High

as The Coach - Principal Cleveland

2001

Teddy Bears' Picnic

as Gene Molinari

1975

Someone I Touched

as Paul Wrightwood

2016

1973

1997

Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie

as Professor Von Trapp (voice) (archive footage)

1972

Second Chance

as Dr. Julius Roth

1988

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats

as Director / Dogcatcher (voice)

1991

Shadows and Fog

as Magician

1990

1971

Desperate Characters

as Otto Bentwood

1979

1985

Prince Jack

as Lyndon Johnson

2000

Runaway Virus

as Dr. Arnold Bowman

1991

Mimi & Me

as Uncle Al

1994

Thumbelina

as King Colbert (voice)

1986

1984

Protocol

as Lou

1979

Before and After

as Ben Fryer

1983

1993

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

as Professor Screweyes (voice)

1963

Act One

as Robert E. Sherwood

2005

Disney Heroes Volume 1

as Old Gorilla (voice)

1987

Rented Lips

as Reverend Farrell

2019

The Little Mermaid Live!

as King Triton (voice)

1987

Radio Days

as Rabbi Baumel

1996

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

as Inspector Kemp (archive footage)

2006

1978

1982

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