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- Birth nameMarvin Wilbur Kaplan
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Marvin Kaplan was born on January 24, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Wild at Heart (1990) and The Great Race (1965). He was married to Rosa Felsenburg. He died on August 25, 2016 in Tarzana, California, USA.
- SpouseRosa Felsenburg(1973 - June 1976) (divorced)
- ParentsDr. Isidore E. KaplanRuth Kaplan (née Rothman)
- RelativesRene Kaplan(Sibling)Eleanor Pecker (née Pecker)(Sibling)
- Thick Brooklyn accent and equally thick, black horn-rimmed glasses.
- Voice of Choo Choo from Top Cat.
- Stocky, bespectacled New York comic actor with distinctive Brooklyn tones discovered by Katharine Hepburn while performing in a play at USC. After she put him into his first film, Adam's Rib (1949), he went and in cartoons (Top Cat (1961)).
- Studied at Brooklyn College and came to Hollywood in 1947 to write for radio and the stage.
- Served as AFTRA Los Angeles local president for eight years.
- Narrator for the read-along book and cassette series Disney's "Your Favorite Fairy Tales", released in 1987.
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