Kenneth Mars
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Over-the-top comic actor Kenneth Mars made an unbearably funny screen debut as the ex-Nazi playwright responsible for the smash miss "Springtime for Hitler" in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968). He was just as exaggerated, though not quite as amusing, as the one-armed police inspector in Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974). Mars seemingly never held anything back, a trait that was prized by his admirers but caused discomfort among his detractors: reviewing the actor's performance in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), Jay Cocks noted, "As a pompous middle-European intellectual, Kenneth Mars mugs and drools in a manner that Jerry Lewis might find excessive." Still, Mars nearly always delivered the laughs -- especially on TV, where he was a regular on such programs as He and She and The Carol Burnett Show. Another of his screen appearances was as a remonstrative rabbi in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1986). Kenneth Mars has also provided voices for dozens of TV cartoon shows, where he sometimes fell prey to the indignity of having his name spelled Len Mars in the credits.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Land Before Time XII: Great Day of the Flyers |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water |
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— | 2002 |
0% | Teddy Bears' Picnic |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Land Before Time: The Big Freeze |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | How to Marry a Billionaire |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire |
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— | 2000 |
17% | The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Runaway Virus |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Land Before Time VI: Secret of Saurus Rock |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island |
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— | 1997 |
14% | Rough Magic |
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— | 1997 |
81% | Citizen Ruth |
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— | 1996 |
60% | The Land Before Time III: The Time of Great Giving |
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— | 1995 |
27% | Thumbelina |
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— | 1994 |
38% | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story |
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— | 1993 |
52% | Shadows and Fog |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Son of Dinosaurs |
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— | 1990 |
0% | Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege |
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— | 1989 |
93% | The Little Mermaid |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Rented Lips |
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— | 1988 |
17% | For Keeps |
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— | 1988 |
0% | Illegally Yours |
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— | 1988 |
90% | Radio Days |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of the American Rabbit |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Prince Jack |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Beer |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Misfits of Science |
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— | 1985 |
77% | Fletch |
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— | 1985 |
33% | Protocol |
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— | 1984 |
22% | Yellowbeard |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Full Moon High |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Goin' Coconuts |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Columbo: The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Someone I Touched |
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— | 1975 |
83% | Night Moves |
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— | 1975 |
94% | Young Frankenstein |
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— | 1974 |
89% | The Parallax View |
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— | 1974 |
93% | Paper Moon |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Steambath |
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— | 1973 |
91% | What's Up, Doc? |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Second Chance |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Desperate Characters |
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— | 1971 |
88% | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | The April Fools |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Viva Max! |
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— | 1969 |
90% | The Producers |
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— | 1968 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
TaleSpin
1991
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No Score Yet |
Malcolm in the Middle
2000-2006
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No Score Yet |
Just Shoot Me
1997-2003
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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No Score Yet |
Becker
1998-2004
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No Score Yet |
The Pretender
1996-2000
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No Score Yet |
The Drew Carey Show
1995-2004
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86% |
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993-1997
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No Score Yet |
Party of Five
1994-2000
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No Score Yet |
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
1992-1997
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91% |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
The Little Mermaid
1992-1994
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No Score Yet |
A Different World
1987-1993
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No Score Yet |
Head of the Class
1986-1991
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No Score Yet |
The Twilight Zone
1985-1989
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Remington Steele
1982-1987
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No Score Yet |
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-1986
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
The Facts of Life
1979-1988
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No Score Yet |
Columbo
1968-2003
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No Score Yet |
Barney Miller
1975-1982
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100% |
Wonder Woman (1976)
1975-1979
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Charles in Charge
1984-1990
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No Score Yet |
Fievel's American Tails
1993
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No Score Yet |
Shades of L.A.
1990
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No Score Yet |
The Carol Burnett Show
1967-1978
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No Score Yet |
The Land Before Time
2007-2008
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Quotes from Kenneth Mars' Characters
Triton: | Well… I guess there’s one problem left. |
Triton: | Well? I guess theres one problem left. |
Sebastian: | And what’s that, Your Majesty? |
Sebastian: | And what's that, Your Majesty? |
Triton: | How much I’m going to miss her. |
Triton: | How much I'm going to miss her. |
Franz Liebkind: | Not many people know it, but the Führer was a terrific dancer. |