Larry Storch

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Lawrence Samuel Storch (born January 8, 1923) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian best known for his comedic television appearances, including voice-over work on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, as well as his live-action portrayal of the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop.

Early life

Lawrence Samuel Storch was born in New York City, the son of Alfred Storch, a taxidriver and broker, and his partner, Sally Kupperman Storch, a telephone operator, jewelry store owner, and rooming house operator on January 8, 1923. He was born in The Bronx, according to the Washington Post. He was born in Manhattan, according to the New York Times. He was born on the Upper West Side, according to the Wall Street Journal. His parents were Jewish. Don Adams, his lifelong friend, attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. Storch said he never graduated from high school but instead found work as a comedian at the bandshell in Sheepshead Bay due to the Great Depression's hard times.

He served in the United States Navy, where he was shipmates with Tony Curtis on the submarine tender USS Proteus during World War II (AS-19).

Personal life

Norma Catherine Greve, a Storch actress, was born on July 10, 1961. They were married until she died at the age of 81 on August 28, 2003. Both appeared in The Woman Hunter (1972), a made-for-television film. He had three children: Lary May, a stepson; Candace Herman, the product of a brief meeting with his future wife, born in 1947 and later reunited; and June Cross, a stepdaughter born in 1954 to Norma and Stumpy, all three boys.

Jay Lawrence, the younger brother of Storch (1924-1977), was an actor/voiceover performer under the name Jay Lawrence.

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Career

Storch was originally a parody. Mannix, Where Are You? led to guest appearances on scores of television shows, including Mannix. Hennesey; Get Smart; Columbo; Columbo; CHiPs; Fantasy Island; McCloud; Emergence; Alias Smith and Jones; The Flight of Jeannie; The Butterfly Hour; That Girl; Jeannie's Dream; Gomer Pyle, Washington, D.C. Gilligan's Island; The Doris Day Exhibition; The Persuaders; Love, American Style; All in the Family and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

His most notable work as the scheming Corporal Randolph Agarn on the situation comedy F Troop, with Forrest Tucker, Ken Berry, and Melody Patterson, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1967.

Storch appeared on Bob Burns (who wore a gorilla costume) and Forrest Tucker on the short-lived but popular Saturday morning children's show The Ghost Busters in 1975. Where Are You? Kelly, Al Bundy's childhood hero on Married... with Children, (Al Bundy's daughter Kelly attended an acting school run by Larry) and was a semi-regular on Car 54. He appeared on the short-lived series The Queen and I.

Storch appeared on many television shows, including Sonny and Cher, Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares, Playboy After Dark, and The Hollywood Palace, among others, including Sonny and Cher, The Ed Sullivan Show, Johnny Carson, and The Steve Allen Show. Although Gleason was on hiatus, Jackie Gleason asked Storch to fill in for him in the summer of 1953. This culminated in the 10-episode The Larry Storch Show starring Janet Blair, Riss Stevens, Dick Haymes, and Cab Calloway.

In several television and film animations, including The Pink Panther Show, Groovie Goolies, The Inspector, The Brady Kids, Koko the Clown, and Tennessee Tuxedo, an impressionist, Storch recreated hundreds of voices and dialects, from Muhammad Ali to Claude Rains and voiced characters.

Storch worked with Mel Blanc and June Foray at Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, creating characters such as Merlin the Magic Mouse and Cool Cat. He continued to act in other series and films directed by Filmation, including Journey Back to Oz (1972) where he played Amos, farmhand to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.

Who Was That Lady? Storch appeared in more than 25 Hollywood films, including Gun Fever (1958). Captain Newman, M.D., (1960), 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962). (1964) Wild and Fabulous (1964), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), and The Great Race (1965). He appeared in Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), That Funny Feeling (1966), A Very Special Favor (1979), The Happy Hooker (1983) and A Fine Mess (1983), as well as the cult sci-fi films The Monitors (1969) and Without Warning (1980). Tony Curtis and Storch were reunited in 2003 for the musical version of Some Like It Hot. He appeared in the documentary film The Aristocrats (2005), as he worked with Anthony Michael Hall in Funny Valentine (2005).

Storch returned to Broadway in New York after success in television and film, having first appeared on the Broadway stage in the 1950s. Breaking Legs, an Off-Broadway film, has received rave reviews. The show was co-starring Philip Bosco and Vincent Gardenia before heading out on the road. Storch appeared in Porgy and Bess (which Storch adored), Arsenic and Old Lace with Jean Stapleton, and Annie Get Your Gun with Reba McEntire. With Porgy and Bess, he toured both the United States and Europe.

Richard Dreyfuss and his long friend Irwin Corey were in Sly Fox in 2004. Larry, then 81, and "Professor" Corey, 90, all did eight shows in a week. Storch performed on Broadway for 50 years in March 2008. His first Broadway appearance was Who Was That Lady I Saw You With, which was later developed into a 1960 film starring Dean Martin and Tony Curtis, with Storch appearing.

Marie Wallace of Storch and Dark Shadows appeared in Love Letters by A. R. Gurney on June 24, 2012, a benefit performance for the Actor's Temple in New York City.

Storch appeared in a benefit performance of Love Letters starring actress Diana Sowle (best known for her role as Mrs. Bucket in the original Willy Wonka film) in Farmville, Virginia, to benefit the Tom Mix Rangers in the summer of 2012.

Larry Storch at The Bon Soir, a comedy LP that was released by Jubilee Records in the 1960s, was published by Storch. Larry Storch Reads Philip Roth's Epstein and singles "Pooped" b/w "The Eighth Wonder Of The World" and "I'm Walkin'" are among his other albums.

Storch recorded the blues song "Wine Spo-Dee O-Dee" with Mike Clark and his bandmates a month before he died. Following Storch's death, the album was posthumously released shortly after.

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