Arthur “Art” Metrano (September 22, 1936 – September 8, 2021) was an American actor and comedian, born in Brooklyn, New York City. Metrano may be best known for his role as Lt./Capt./Cmdt. Mauser in Police Academy 2 and Police Academy 3.
Metrano’s first film role was as a truck driver in the 1961 Cold War thriller Rocket Attack U.S.A.. Among Metrano’s TV guest appearances was a 1968 episode of Ironside. However, he is better known for his frequent appearances on talk and variety shows in the early 1970s, especially The Tonight Show, as a “magician” performing absurd tricks, such as making his fingers “jump” from one hand to another, while constantly humming an inane theme song – “Fine and Dandy”, an early 1930s composition by Kay Swift. In December 2007, Metrano filed a lawsuit against Family Guy, asserting copyright infringement, and asking for damages in excess of two million dollars.
Due to a fall at home in 1989, Metrano seriously injured his spinal cord and is disabled. Currently, he tours with his one-man show, “Jews Don’t Belong On Ladders…An Accidental Comedy”, which has raised more than $75,000 for Project Support for Spinal Cord Injury, to help buy crutches, wheelchairs, and supplies for handicapped people.
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Art Metrano Biography / Wiki
| Name | Art Metrano |
| Also Know | Arthur Metrano |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1936-09-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 84 |
| Deathday | 2021-09-08 |
Art Metrano Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Dirty O’Neil | Lassiter | 1974-05-01 | A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town…until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman… |
| Breathless | Birnbaum | 1983-05-13 | Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way, he shoots a police officer. When he makes it to L.A. he stays … |
| Malibu Express | Matthew | 1985-03-01 | In this erotic spy tale private eye Cody Abilene teams up with the Contessa Luciana and policewoman Beverly McAfee to infiltrate a mansion and discove… |
| Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers | Vic | 1989-10-11 | A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money loaned for “remodeling.” When they can’t pay it… |
| No Man’s Valley | Abe (voice) | 1981-11-23 | Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before man drives them over the brink into extinction…. |
| Warhead | Mario | 1977-02-15 | A weapons expert is reluctantly sent on a mission to a middle-east warzone to locate a lost nuclear warhead and dismantle it before it falls into the … |
| Seven | Kinsella | 1979-09-07 | A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them…. |
| Norma | Delivery Man | 1970-03-01 | A woman goes to a doctor hoping he will cure her nymphomania. Scenes of her with her various lovers and pick-ups of both sexes are shown. through ther… |
| Matilda | Gordon Baum | 1978-06-22 | A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time…. |
| The Treasure of Jamaica Reef | Waiter | 1975-03-01 | An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor…. |
| The All-American Boy | Jay David Swooze | 1973-10-23 | Vic “Bomber” Bealer is a handsome, manipulative boxer who aspires to something greater than the small-town life he knows in Texas. But, even when oppo… |
| Going Ape! | Joey | 1981-04-10 | When his father – who owned a circus – dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars – and 3 orang outangs. However there’s a condition connected to the mone… |
| Slaughter’s Big Rip Off | Mario Burtoli | 1973-08-31 | Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, … |
| Brinks: The Great Robbery | Julius Mareno | 1976-03-26 | In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme polic… |
| Police Academy 3: Back in Training | Comdt. Mauser | 1986-03-20 | When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against … |
| Murder in Mind | Judge | 1997-08-01 | The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the pol… |
| Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | Lt. Mauser | 1985-03-28 | Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Quest… |
| How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Gas Station Attendant | 1980-07-11 | Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysit… |
| Teachers | Troy | 1984-10-05 | A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies…. |
| Steambath | Longshoreman | 1973-05-04 | Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the s… |
| They Only Kill Their Masters | Malcolm | 1972-11-22 | An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relation… |
| Then Came Bronson | 1969-03-23 | Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle… | |
| The Heartbreak Kid | Ententainer | 1972-12-17 | Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants… |
| Real Men Don’t Eat Gummi Bears | Agent 712 | 1989-08-17 | In this wacky comedy, teen-aged Tony (Bentley C. Mitchum) has never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks … |
| Cheaper to Keep Her | Tony Turino | 1981-01-01 | A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney…. |
| They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? | Max | 1969-12-10 | In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a… |
| Good Advice | Homeless Man | 2001-11-15 | An investment banker loses everything and must discover what’s important in life…. |
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Dr. Steinberg | 1998-08-14 | Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella’s so busy building a life that she’s forgotten how to really li… |
| Linda Lovelace for President | The Sheik | 1975-03-01 | An intentionally campy film designed to capitalize on Linda Lovelace’s sudden fame following “Deep Throat”, this film centers around Linda’s fictional… |
| Rocket Attack U.S.A. | Truck Driver | 1958-01-01 | It’s the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union with the Communists launching a spy satellite that has the Free World l… |
| In Name Only | Joe | 1969-11-25 | In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiat… |
| History of the World: Part I | Leonardo DaVinci – The Roman Empire | 1981-06-12 | An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition…. |
| The Strongest Man in the World | TV Color Man | 1975-02-06 | Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged … |
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