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Carney made his Broadway debut in 1957 as the lead in The Rope Dancers with Siobhán McKenna, a drama by Morton Wishengrad. His subsequent Broadway appearances included his portrayal in 1965–67 of Felix Unger in The Odd Couple (opposite Walter Matthau and then Jack Klugman as Oscar).
Sep 25, 2023 · A great new opportunity arose for Art in the 1960s when Neil Simon cast him as the first Felix Unger in the Broadway production of The Odd Couple, playing opposite Walter Matthau’s Oscar Madison. As was the case with Gleason, it was comic gold combining them, but it wasn’t to last.
- Ed Gross
Art Carney, who won a best-actor Oscar for “Harry and Tonto” and originated the role of fussy Felix Ungar in “The Odd Couple” on Broadway, but who is best remembered as Jackie Gleason’s...
In 1965, he played the original Felix Unger—the compulsive neat freak in the Neil Simon play The Odd Couple. Other Broadway credits include roles in 1957's The Rope Dancers and 1961's Take Her, She's Mine, as well as 1968's Lovers.
Sep 24, 2020 · Neil Simon wrote The Odd Couple as a play, which premiered on Broadway in 1965 with Walter Matthau as Oscar and Art Carney as Felix. It won four Tony Awards, including one for Matthau as...
Nov 16, 2003 · On paper, Carney's signing to play fussy Felix Unger in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" for director Mike Nichols looks like a career pinnacle. But it turned...
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Jul 25, 2024 · Pat Hingle, Eddie Bracken, Carole Shelley and Monica Evans in the stage production The Odd Couple, with Hingle and Bracken taking over, respectively, for Matthau and Carney. Carole Shelley and Monica Evans portrayed the Pigeon Sisters, roles they would reprise in the 1968 movie and the first season of the television series.
