Lawrence Samuel Storch (born January 8, 1923) is an American actor,
voice 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.Also on television, he
played Oscar on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "An Out for
Oscar" (1963).Storch was born in New York City, a son of Alfred
Storch, a realtor, and his wife Sally (née Kupperman) Storch, a
telephone operator. 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.
voice 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.Also on television, he
played Oscar on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "An Out for
Oscar" (1963).Storch was born in New York City, a son of Alfred
Storch, a realtor, and his wife Sally (née Kupperman) Storch, a
telephone operator. 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.
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