The proud owner of scores of dialects and hundreds of uncanny impersonations, slight, deadpan, rubber-faced, light-haired funnyman John Byner is the forerunner to such presently gifted comic impressionists as 'Dana Carvey' , respectively. Married four times, John has four children from his first marriage.
He asked for a divorce from his second wife after 36 hours.
Biography in: "Whos Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 82-83. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Was Garry Marshall s original choice to play the character of Mork on "Happy Days" , but he turned it down. The part then went to Robin Williams , and soon spun off into the show "Mork & Mindy" .
Was known for doing every voice (except one) in all 17 "The Ant and the Aardvark" cartoons.
