The 91-year-old veteran actor, known as a nerd-type before even the venerable Eddie Deezen appeared on the scene, has passed away of pneumonia at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts.

Though distinctive in appearance — always with the geeky glasses — Arnold Stang is best remembered for voicing Top Cat in the 1960s cartoon.

But bad movie aficionados treasure him for being the “other” Arnold in 1970’s Hercules In New York, which marked the film debut of muscle-bound Arnold Strong, who’d later revert to his real surname: Schwarzenegger.

In the crapulous cult comedy, Stang plays a Noo Yawker who befriends the rambunctious, chariot-racing and ass-kicking Hercules. In the trailer below, Stang’s the one in the cap and glasses, natch