 Van Rooten also appeared in an uncredited role on "The Honeymooners" as Mr. Johnson, the landlord.He is best known for his character work in films, but van Rooten was also a skilled artist and designer and the author of several sophisticated books of humor.These include "Van Rooten's Book of Improbable Saints" and "The Floriculturist's Vade Mecum of Exotic and Recondite Plants, Shrubs and Grasses, and One Malignant Parasite" 

Van Rooten died June 17, 1973, in Chatham, Massachusetts, where he and his family had a vacation home.