Morty Gunty (February 1, 1929 – July 15, 1984) was an American actor and comedian, a well-known New York City nightclub comic in the 1960s and 1970s.
In addition to being a nightclub comic, in the mid-1960s, he hosted a 90-minute weekday afternoon children's television series on WOR-TV New York called The Funny Company.
][4] He played Buddy Sorrell in the original pilot for The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was entitled Head of the Family and starred writer/creator Carl Reiner in the lead role with an entirely different cast.
[3] Gunty died of cancer on July 15, 1984, aged 55, in Brooklyn, New York.
He was survived by his wife, Marilyn; two daughters, a brother; and his parents, Belle and Abraham Gunty.