Actor Kenneth Mars died at the age of 75 this past weekend of pancreatic cancer.
Best known as Nazi enthusiast Franz Liebkind in Mel Brooks' 1968 film "The Producers," Mars died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Grenada Hills, Calif., The New York Times reported.
Brooks also cast the Chicago-born actor in "Young Frankenstein" (1974) as a cop with an artificial arm that doesn't quite work.
Prior to his roles on the big screen, Mars appeared on Broadway in "The Affair" in 1962 and also starred on the small screen in "Get Smart" and "Gunsmoke."
He went on to star opposite major stars like Robert Redford ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969) and Barbra Streisand ("What's Up, Doc?" in 1972) and in his later years appeared in two Woody Allen films, "Radio Days" (1987) and "Shadows and Fog" (1991).
He most recently had a recurring role on the Fox show "Malcolm in the Middle."
Mars leaves behind two daughters, Susannah Mars Johnson and Rebecca Mars Tipton, and six grandkids.
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