Kenneth Mars (April 4, 1935 – February 12, 2011) was an American actor. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in
The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in
Young Frankenstein (1974). He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972) as well as Woody Allen's
Radio Days (1987) and
Shadows and Fog (1991). Mars appeared in two seasons of
Malcolm in the Middle as Otto Mannkusser, Francis's well-meaning but dimwitted boss and a German immigrant who owns a dude ranch. He voiced King Triton, Ariel's father, in the 1989 Disney animated film
The Little Mermaid and its sequel, as well as its companion television series, and the Kingdom Hearts series. He also did several other animated voice-over film roles such a...
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