Mantan Moreland
Acting
Born September 3, 1902 · Monroe, Louisiana, USA
Biography
Born just after the turn of the century in Louisiana, Mantan began running away from home at age 12 to join circuses and medicine shows, only to be brought back time and again. During these times he sharpened his comic skills and developed routines and acts that eventually became popular on the vaudeville stage, or what was then called the "chitlin' circuit." A solo performer by nature, he often teamed up with other famous comics (such as Ben Carter) to keep working, and became a deft performer of "indefinite talk" routines, where two quicksilver comics continually topped each other in mid-sen…
Known For · 40 titles
Adam-12
Love, American Style
Julia
The Bill Cosby Show
Girl Trouble
Swing Fever
Tarzan's New York Adventure
See Here, Private Hargrove
Millionaire Playboy
Spider Baby
Black Magic
The Patsy
Captain Tugboat Annie
The Trap
Sarong Girl
Slightly Dangerous
Hit the Ice
The Shanghai Cobra
Dressed to Kill
The Gang's All Here
Cabin in the Sky
A-Haunting We Will Go
Sign of the Wolf
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Chip Off the Old Block
Eyes in the Night
The Young Nurses
Watermelon Man
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
King of the Zombies
It Started with Eve
The Dreamer
Law of the Jungle
The Shanghai Chest
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
The Comic
Four Jacks and a Jill
Docks of New Orleans
We've Never Been Licked
Moon Over Las Vegas