Art Carney
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11/03/1918
Mount Vernon, NY |
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| Did myriad impersonations as a child, including Jimmy Durante, Edward G. Robinson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and won talent contests in elementary school and high school. |
| Entered the U.S. Army in the early '40s and endured a serious leg wound at Normandy, which left him with a permanent limp. |
| Never took an acting course. |
| Before landing the role of Ed Norton on The Honeymooners, he played second banana on radio to Fred Allen, Edgar Bergen and Bert Lahr in the late '40s. |
