Biography
Arthur William Matthew Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor and comedian. A recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and six Primetime Emmy Awards, he was best known for his role as Ed Norton on the sitcom The Honeymooners (1955–1956). His film roles include Harry and Tonto (1974), The Late Show (1977), House Calls (1978), Going in Style (1979), Firestarter, The Muppets Take Manhattan (both 1984), and Last Action Hero (1993). Description above from the...
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A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened
2023
as Self (archive footage)
In 1978, CBS aired the “Star Wars Holiday Special” the week before Thanksgiving to an audience of 13 million people. Considered one of the worst shows...

The Twilight Zone Christmas Classics
2014
as Henry corwin (night of the meek)
The Christmas Fantasy "Night of the Meek" starring Art Carney as a drunken department-store Santa who experiences quite an epiphany on Christmas Eve. ...

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...

Jackie Gleason: Genius at Work
2006
as Self (archive footage)
This special is a thorough retrospective of Jackie's most popular characters from his 1950's television series, characters that include: Ralph Kramden...

The Very Best of the Honeymooners
2000
as Ed Norton
Rediscover the comedy classic that features bus driver Ralph Cramden and his wife Alice, as well as their wacky friends Ed and Trixie Norton in this t...
Jackie Gleason's Cavalcade of Characters
1994
as Clem Finch (archive footage)
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Last Action Hero
1993
as Frank
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is ...

Where Pigeons Go to Die
1990
as Da
Sentimental drama about an aging man's fond reminiscences of his relationship with his grandfather in 1950 midwest and the time they spent together ra...
Jackie Gleason: The Great One
1988
as Self - Ed Norton (archive footage)
Documentary about the life and times of Jackie Gleason.

Night Friend
1988
as Monsignor O'Brien
A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
1986
as Father Michael T. O'Halloran
A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.

The Blue Yonder
1985
as Henry Coogan
A young boy, who dreams of meeting the grandfather he never knew gets his chance, when an inventor friend constructs a time machine. After arriving in...

The Emperor's New Clothes
1985
as Morty
Two con men take advantage of an emperor's vanity.

Izzy & Moe
1985
as Moe Smith
The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's.

The Undergrads
1985
as Mel Adler
An elderly man discovers that his son wants to put him in an old-age home. However, the old man's grandson refuses to allow it, and the man and his gr...

The Night They Saved Christmas
1984
as Santa Claus
An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that an...

The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984
as Bernard Crawford
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a...

The Naked Face
1984
as Morgens
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. Afte...

Firestarter
1984
as Irv Manders
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the...

A Doctor's Story
1984
as Harry Wickes
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

Terrible Joe Moran
1984
as Tony
A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her los...

The Last Leaf
1983
as Mr. Verlain
An Easter Parable: As lingering pneumonia takes her will to live, a young girl decides that she will die when the last leaf drops from a dying vine ou...

Better Late Than Never
1983
as Charley Dunbar
Two men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress.

St. Helens
1982
as Harry Truman
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic acti...

The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold
1981
as Narrator / Blarney Kilakilarney (voice)
Sent in search of a Christmas tree, cabin boy Dinty Doyle lands on a mysterious, uncharted Irish island where he accidentally releases a bad-tempered ...

Bitter Harvest
1981
as Walter Peary
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the political...

Take This Job and Shove It
1981
as Charlie Pickett
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.

Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980
as Art Rooney
Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then ...

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
as Robert Stroud
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "T...

Roadie
1980
as Corpus C. Redfish
A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll sh...

Defiance
1980
as Abe
Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a ...

Going in Style
1979
as Al
Three kindly old men decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glory – by sticking up a Manhattan bank in broad dayl...

Letters from Frank
1979
as Frank Miller
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes...

Steel
1979
as Pignose Moran
Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heigh...

Sunburn
1979
as Marcus
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.

Ravagers
1979
as Sergeant
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their w...

You Can't Take it With You
1979
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a sl...

The Honeymooners Christmas Special
1978
as Ed Norton
With a Christmas lotto radio show coming up, Ralph Kramden invests his mother-in-law's social security check, Ed Norton's Christmas bonus, and the Nor...

The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
as Saun Dann
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, the...

Movie Movie
1978
as Dr. Blaine / Dr. Bowers
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.

Ringo
1978
as Ognir's Father
Ringo Starr, bored and disillusioned with fame, meets a doppelgänger in Hollywood named Ognir Rrats who sells maps to the stars' homes and lives with ...

House Calls
1978
as Dr. Amos Willoughby
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, ...

The Honeymooners Specials: Valentine Special
1978
as Ed Norton

The Honeymooners Specials: A Christmas Carol
1977
as Ed Norton
Ralph Kramden directs a play version of "A Christmas Carol" for his boss' fundraiser.

Scott Joplin
1977
as John Stark
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

The Late Show
1977
as Ira Wells
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who was involved in a case concerning a murdered bro...

Christmas in Disneyland
1976
as Gramps / Dr. Wunderbar
It stars Art Carney, Sandy Duncan and Glen Campbell, each playing a dual role. Art Carney plays both a miserly grandfather referred to as "Gramps" and...

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as J.J. Fromberg
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

Lanigan's Rabbi
1976
as Police Chief Paul Lanigan
In this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by ...

What Now, Catherine Curtis?
1976
as Mr. Slaney
Following twenty-three years of marriage to a philandering husband, divorcee Catherine Curtis begins life anew as a single woman.

The Honeymooners Specials: Second Honeymoon
1976
as Ed Norton

Katherine
1975
as Thornton Alman
A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a figh...

Death Scream
1975
as Mr. Jacobs
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to h...

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
as Deacon
W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he hijacks...

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974
as Malcolm Michaels
As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband Malcolm has become boring. Seeking independence, ...

Harry and Tonto
1974
as Harry Coombes
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way f...

The Female Instinct
1972
as Barney
A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.

The Great Santa Claus Switch
1970
as Santa Claus / Cosmo Scam
Santa Claus and his elves are ready to deliver presents to children everywhere but Cosmo Scam has hatched a plan to kidnap Santa and take his place! O...

A Guide for the Married Man
1967
as Technical Adviser (Joe X)
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
The Car That Became a Star
1965
as Self
This promotional film showcases the automobile whose adventures are chronicled in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964). After the car is filmed in various Eu...

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Joey Friedlander
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The nex...

The Right Man
1960
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Film on presidential campaigns and the right to vote. Used as educational material in American classrooms.

The Velvet Alley
1959
as Ernie Pandash
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf
1958
as Self
A human, played by Art Carney, makes friends with a forest full of talking animals (played by the Bil Baird Marionettes). Together, they must decide w...

Kraft Television Theatre: Alice in Wonderland
1954
as The Mad Hatter
Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, join Alice on her adventure in Wonderland.
Confessions of a Nervous Man
1953
as The Author
From the anthology series Studio One. On opening night, a playwright sits in a bar interacting with well-wishers and remembering the problems of getti...

PM Picnic
1950
Animated theatrical liquor advertisement for Pleasant Moments Whiskey featuring all the animals in the countryside going to a picnic.

Pot o' Gold
1941
as Band Member / Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family ...

The Honeymooners Holiday Classics
N/A
as Ed Norton
Celebrate the holidays with the hilarious antics of America's favorite bus driver and gang. The Honeymooners Holiday Classics is fun-filled family ent...