{"id":11896,"date":"2011-02-15T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11896"},"modified":"2011-02-15T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:17:37","slug":"kenneth-mars-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/15\/kenneth-mars-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Mars, 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/KennethMars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11897\" title=\"KennethMars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/KennethMars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/KennethMars.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/KennethMars-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Mars, the comic actor who appeared in two of director Mel Brooks&#8217; best comedies, has died this past Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Granada Hills, Calif. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p>In Brooks&#8217; 1968 farce <strong>The Producers<\/strong>, Mars played the crazy German playwright Franz Liebkind, writer of what Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder hope will be the worst musical of all time <em>Springtime For Hitler<\/em>. Mars would slip into another comical, albeit thick to the point of near-incomprehensibility, German accent for Brooks in <strong>Young Frankenstein<\/strong> as Inspector Kemp, who sported a wooden arm and an eyepatch and a monocle on the same eye.<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared in such films as <strong>What&#8217;s Up Doc?<\/strong> (1972, with Barbara Streisand), <strong>The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again<\/strong> (1979), <strong>Yellowbeard<\/strong> (1983) and <strong>Fletch<\/strong> (1985).<\/p>\n<p>Mars spent a majority of his career in television where he guest starred on such series as <em>Love American Style<\/em>, <em>Barney Miller<\/em>, <em>Cagney &amp; Lacey<\/em> and <em>Simon &amp; Simon<\/em> and had recurring roles on the 1967 sitcom <em>He &amp; She<\/em> and Martin Mull&#8217;s talk show parody <em>Fernwood Tonight<\/em>. He also lent his voice to a number of animated projects over the years from the original <em>Jetsons<\/em> television series to <strong>The Little Mermaid<\/strong> and the <strong>Land Before Time<\/strong> film\/direct to home video\/television franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Chicago, IL on April 14, 1936, Mars was the son of vaudeville comic Sonny Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Kenneth Mars, the comic actor who appeared in two of director Mel Brooks&#8217; best comedies, has died this past Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Granada Hills, Calif. He was 75. In Brooks&#8217; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/15\/kenneth-mars-75\/\" title=\"Kenneth Mars, 75\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[3458,3506,1609,2506,3507],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-fletch","9":"tag-kenneth-mars","10":"tag-mel-brooks","11":"tag-the-producers","12":"tag-young-frankenstein"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11896"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}