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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/comedy-actor-kenneth-mars-dies.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Kenneth Mars portrays a Hitler-worshipping playwright in a scene from The Producers (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-comedy-actor-kenneth-mars-dies.jpg" alt="Kenneth Mars portrays a Hitler-worshipping playwright in a scene from The Producers (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Kenneth Mars, a Mel Brooks collaborator who played a Hitler-worshipping playwright in The Producers and an earnest police inspector with a malfunctioning artificial arm in Young Frankenstein, has died. </p>
<p>He was 75.</p>
<p>In a statement, Mars&#8217; family said the actor died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Grenada Hills.</p>
<p>In Brooks&#8217; 1968 romp The Producers, Mars co-starred as Franz Liebkind, a Nazi enthusiast whose play, Springtime for Hitler, is the basis for a scheme by two conniving showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) to con investors by putting on a surefire Broadway flop.</p>
<p>Brooks cast Mars again in 1974&#8217;s Young Frankenstein as the constable poking around the castle grounds on the trail of mad scientist Wilder&#8217;s monster.</p>
<p>In both films, the Chicago-born Mars demonstrated his talent for vocal farce, lending over-the-top German accents to the characters.</p>
<p>Mars&#8217; nearly 50-year career included a long list of voice credits, including The Little Mermaid, The Jetsons and The Land Before Time movies and TV series.</p>
<p>Among Mars&#8217; other film credits were Woody Allen&#8217;s Radio Days and Shadows and Fog, and Peter Bogdanovich&#8217;s What&#8217;s Up, Doc. His extensive television work featured regular roles on Malcolm in the Middle, Fernwood Tonight and the 1960s series He&#038;She.</p>
<p>Mars is survived by two daughters, Susannah Mars Johnson and Rebecca Mars Tipton, and six grandchildren.</p>
<p>A private funeral service was planned.</p>
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