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Samuel Storch (born January 8,

1923) is an American actor and comedian, best known for

his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows, such

as Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His

Tales, and his live-action role of the bumbling Corporal

Randolph Agarn on F Troop. Storch was born in New York City to Alfred Storch, a realtor, and his wife,

Sally Kupperman Storch, a telephone operator. His parents were observant Jews . He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in

the Bronx with Don Adams, who remained his lifelong

friend. Due to hard times in the Great Depression, Storch said he never graduated from high

school, instead finding work as a stand-up comic for $12 a week opening for

bandleader Al Donahue at the

band shell in Sheepshead Bay. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy where

he was shipmates with Tony Curtis on

the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19).

Storch was originally a stand-up comic. This led to guest appearances on dozens of

television series, including, Mannix, Car 54, Where Are You?; Hennesey; Get Smart; Sergeant Bilko; Columbo; CHiPs; Fantasy Island; McCloud; Emergency!; The Flying Nun; Alias Smith and Jones; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; That Girl; I Dream of Jeannie; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; Gilligan's Island; The Doris Day Show; The Persuaders; Love, American Style; All in the Family; and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

His most famous role was the scheming Corporal Randolph Agarn on the situation

comedy F Troop (1965–1967), with Forrest Tucker, Ken Berry and Melody Patterson. In 1975, Storch co-starred with Bob Burns (who was disguised as a gorilla) and Forrest

Tucker on the short-lived but popular Saturday morning children's show The Ghost Busters. He also appeared on The Love Boat, was Al Bundy's childhood hero on Married... with Children (Al

Bundy's daughter Kelly attended an acting school operated by Larry), and was a

semi-regular on Car 54, Where Are You?.

He co-starred on the short-lived series The Queen and I.

Storch appeared on many variety shows, including Sonny and Cher, Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares, Playboy After Dark and The Hollywood Palace,

with several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight

Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Steve Allen Show. Jackie Gleason personally asked Storch to fill in for him

in the summer of 1953 while Gleason was on hiatus. This led to the

10-episode The Larry Storch Show with

guest stars including Janet Blair, Risë Stevens, Dick Haymes and Cab Calloway. He also made appearances on Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.

and Gilligan's Island. An impressionist, Storch does hundreds of voices and

dialects ranging from Muhammad Ali to Claude Rains. This has proved useful for cartoons. He has

voiced characters in numerous television and film animations including The Pink Panther Show, Groovie Goolies, The Inspector, The Brady Kids, Cool Cat, Koko the Clown, Treasure Island and Tennessee Tuxedo. Storch had worked with Mel Blanc and June Foray at Warner Bros.-Seven Arts,

voicing characters such as titular Merlin the Magic Mouse and Cool Cat. He continued his

association with Filmation as a voiceover actor in

other series and films the company produced including Journey Back to Oz where

he voiced Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's farmhand Amos.