Art Carney

Comedian and actor, born in Mount Vernon, New York, USA. After working as ‘second banana’ for Fred Allen, Edgar Bergen, and Bert Lahr, he served in the US Army and was wounded during the Normandy landing (Jun 1944). He later performed on Broadway and television, gaining his greatest success as Jackie Gleason's sewer-cleaner sidekick, Ed Norton, in The Honeymooners (1955–6). He created the role of slovenly Oscar in Broadway's The Odd Couple (1960), and after recovering from a mental breakdown he returned to work on stage, television, and films, winning an Oscar for Harry and Tonto (1974).

Art Carney
Born	November 4, 1918 Mount Vernon, New York
Died	November 9, 2003 Chester, Connecticut

Art Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an Academy Award winning American actor in film, stage, television, and radio.

Born Arthur William Matthew Carney in Mount Vernon, New York, he gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the popular television comedy show The Honeymooners. from 1980 to November 9, 2003: 3 children

Although he retired in the late 1980s, he remerged in 1993 to make a small cameo in the Arnold Schwarzenegger flop Last Action Hero as Schwarzenegger's second cousin Frank who is tortured by the movie's main villain.

Carney died at his home of natural causes five days after his 85th birthday in Westbrook, Connecticut;

Art Carney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.

Preceded by: Jack Lemmon for Save the Tiger

Academy Award for Best Actor 1974 for Harry and Tonto

Succeeded by: Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest