Art Carney
- Birthplace: Mount Vernon, New York, USA
- Birthday: November 4, 1918
Some players make their marks in leading roles while other excel in secondary parts. In the annals of TV history, Art Carney will be listed as a--if not the--premiere second banana. Over a period of close to two decades, he charmed and delighted audiences as Ed Norton, the subterranean sanitation engineer and comic foil to Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden, in "The Honeymooners" sketches on "The Jackie Gleason Show".
Carney was the youngest of six sons born in Mount Vernon, NY to an insurance salesman and his musician w…more