Hank Mann (born David William Lieberman, May 28, 1887 â€" November 25,
1971) was a comedian and silent screen star who was the last surviving
member of the Keystone Cops. According to fellow actor and original
member of the ensemble Edgar Kennedy, Mann was the originator of the
idea for the Keystone Cops.Hank Mann was born in Russia but emigrated
to New York City with his parents and siblings in 1891.Mann was one of
the earliest of film comedians, working first for Mack Sennett as an
original Keystone Cop, and later for producers William Fox and Morris
R. Schlank in silent film comedies. With the advent of motion picture
sound and the "talkies", he became a popular bit player and background
extra in many quintessential motion picture dramas as well as
comedies, including The Maltese Falcon (one of a group of reporters)
and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (as a photographer). One of his more
sizable talkie roles was as a flustered hotel manager in the 1944
comedy-mystery Crime by Night, and he reunited with fellow Keystone
player Chester Conklin as bartenders in the 1952 Bob Hope comedy Son
of Paleface.One of Mann's most famous bits was as the "glass door man"
in the Three Stooges' short Men in Black. Later in his career he
continued to play bit parts in TV comedies, and made some appearances
in several Jerry Lewis film comedies in the 1960s. Although he never
really retired completely from the film industry, his later years were
spent as an apartment building manager with his wife, Dolly, in the
Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.
1971) was a comedian and silent screen star who was the last surviving
member of the Keystone Cops. According to fellow actor and original
member of the ensemble Edgar Kennedy, Mann was the originator of the
idea for the Keystone Cops.Hank Mann was born in Russia but emigrated
to New York City with his parents and siblings in 1891.Mann was one of
the earliest of film comedians, working first for Mack Sennett as an
original Keystone Cop, and later for producers William Fox and Morris
R. Schlank in silent film comedies. With the advent of motion picture
sound and the "talkies", he became a popular bit player and background
extra in many quintessential motion picture dramas as well as
comedies, including The Maltese Falcon (one of a group of reporters)
and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (as a photographer). One of his more
sizable talkie roles was as a flustered hotel manager in the 1944
comedy-mystery Crime by Night, and he reunited with fellow Keystone
player Chester Conklin as bartenders in the 1952 Bob Hope comedy Son
of Paleface.One of Mann's most famous bits was as the "glass door man"
in the Three Stooges' short Men in Black. Later in his career he
continued to play bit parts in TV comedies, and made some appearances
in several Jerry Lewis film comedies in the 1960s. Although he never
really retired completely from the film industry, his later years were
spent as an apartment building manager with his wife, Dolly, in the
Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.
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