Actor. A veteran character performer, he received a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for the role of Angie, the friend of Ernest Borgnine in "Marty" (1955). His refrain from that film - "Well, whaddya feel like doin' tonight?" - became a popular catchphrase. He scored another classic sound bite in "Chinatown" (1974), delivering its cryptic closing lines: "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Mantell served in the US Army during World War II, and began acting on the New York stage in the late 1940s. He made his screen debut with "Undercover Man" (1949) and went on to appear in some 80 films and television shows. Fans of "The Twilight Zone" will remember his tour de force performance in the episode "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" (1960), as a petty crook battling the mirror image of his alter ego. His other credits include the features "Onion Head" (1958), Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963), "Kelly's Heroes" (1970), and "The Two Jakes" (1990), and the TV shows "Combat," "Mannix," "Ironside," "Lou Grant," "Maude," "Hart to Hart," and "Barney Miller.". Mantell died of natural causes at age 94.
Actor. A veteran character performer, he received a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for the role of Angie, the friend of Ernest Borgnine in "Marty" (1955). His refrain from that film - "Well, whaddya feel like doin' tonight?" - became a popular catchphrase. He scored another classic sound bite in "Chinatown" (1974), delivering its cryptic closing lines: "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Mantell served in the US Army during World War II, and began acting on the New York stage in the late 1940s. He made his screen debut with "Undercover Man" (1949) and went on to appear in some 80 films and television shows. Fans of "The Twilight Zone" will remember his tour de force performance in the episode "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" (1960), as a petty crook battling the mirror image of his alter ego. His other credits include the features "Onion Head" (1958), Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963), "Kelly's Heroes" (1970), and "The Two Jakes" (1990), and the TV shows "Combat," "Mannix," "Ironside," "Lou Grant," "Maude," "Hart to Hart," and "Barney Miller.". Mantell died of natural causes at age 94.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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