Art Metrano Biography

Fast Facts

• Has raised more than $175,000 for Project Support for Spinal Cord Injury through his one-man stage act "Jews Don't Belong on Ladders…The Accidental Comedy․"
• Quote: "There's a poem I live my life by․ And I repeat it constantly․ At the end of my shows I tell it to the audience․․․'There is a destiny that makes us brothers, none goes his way alone, all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own․'"
• Known for his appearances on variety shows in the early 1970s as a magician performing silly tricks while constantly humming his theme song
• Perhaps best known for his role as Commandant Mauser in "Police Academy 2" and "Police Academy 3․"
• Broke his neck in several places, injuring his spinal cord, after a fall from a ladder while working on a house, but he is now able to walk with little difficulty