Carney, youngest of six sons (Fred, Jack, Ned, Phil, Robert), was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of Helen (née Farrell) and Edward Michael Carney, who was a newspaper man and publicist.[1][2][3] His family was Irish American and Catholic.[4] He attended A B Davis High School.[5] Carney was drafted as an infantryman during World War II. During the Battle of Normandy, he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel and walked with a limp for the rest of his life.
Carney was married three times to two women: Jean Myers, from 1940 to 1965, and again from 1980 until his death in 2003, and to Barbara Isaac from December 21, 1966 until 1977. He had three children with his first wife, Brian (born 1946), Eileen (born 1946) & Paul (born 1952). Brian Carney appears alongside the animated gecko in GEICO commercials.
Art Carney died November 9, 2003, aged 85, from natural causes at a rest home near his home in Westbrook, Connecticut. He is interred at Riverside Cemetery in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
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