Arte Johnson
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Arte Johnson (born January 20, 1929), full name Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, is a comedic actor.
He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949. He initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising agencies, but left for New York to work for Viking Press. His first "show business" job came when he impulsively stepped into an audition line and was cast in a revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
He is best known for his work on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an American television show which aired from 1968-1973, in which he played various characters including a smoking Nazi with the catch phrase "Verrry interesting..." Later in the seventies, he hosted the NBC game show Knockout.
In the nineties Johnson voiced "Newt", a hunting dog on the cartoon "Animaniacs", who futilely became enamoured of his target, a sexy female mink named Minerva.