Art Metrano
In December 2007, Metrano filed a lawsuit accusing the show of copyright infringement, and claiming damages in excess of two million US dollars. Currently, he tours with his one-man show, Jews Don t Belong On Ladders..An Accidental Comedy , which has raised more than $175,000 for Project Support for Spinal Cord Injury to help buy crutches, wheelchairs, and supplies. . He left the series due to a serious fall at home that seriously injured his spinal cord and left him disabled. Among Metrano s TV guest appearances was a 1968 episode of Ironside.However, he is more known for his frequent appearances on The Tonight Show in the early 1970s as a magician performing absurd tricks (such as making his fingers jump from one hand to another) while constantly humming an inane theme song (named Fine and Dandy , an early 1930s composition by Kay Swift). He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
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Metrano may be best known for his role as Capt. Arthur Art Metrano (born September 22, 1936) is an American actor of Greek-Turkish-Jewish-Sephardic ancestry.
