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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)
- 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.
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