Marty Feldman

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Martin Alan Feldman (18 July 1934 to 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedian, and comedy writer best known for his prominent, misaligned gaze.

He appeared in several British television comedy series, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which received two BAFTA awards.

Round the Horne, the BBC Radio comedy show, was also co-created by Heine.

Feldman was one of a group of British comedians in The Bed Sitting Room (1969), his first film appearance.

In 1970, he appeared in Every Home Should Have One, one of the most popular comedies at the British box office.

Feldman was the first Saturn Award winner for his role as Igor in Mel Brooks' 1974 comedy horror film Young Frankenstein.

Early life

Feldman was born in East London on July 8, 1934, the son of Cecilia (née Crook) and Myer Feldman, a gown maker, and a Jewish immigrant from Kyiv, Ukraine. During his years of forced relocation to the countryside during the Second World War, he described his childhood as "solitary."

Feldman's eyes protruded and became misaligned as a result of thyroid disease and Graves' ophthalmopathy. A childhood injury, a car accident, a boating crash, and reconstructive eye surgery may have all contributed to his appearance. With two lines on Kojak, he later described his appearance as a determining factor in his career: "I aspired to be Robert Redford, I'd have my eyes straightened and my nose fixed and I'd end up like every other lousy actor." However, I'm a stranger in this respect."

Personal life

Feldman was married to Lauretta Sullivan from January 1959 to his death in 1982. She died in 2010 in Studio City, Los Angeles, at the age of 74. Feldman's colleagues also wrote a number of biographies that he was very attractive to women in spite of his eccentric facial appearance.

He spent time in jazz clubs as he discovered a similarity between 'riffing' in a comedy collaboration and jazz improvisation.

Feldman was described as a "avowed socialist" in one interview, and another as "I'm a socialist from way back" in order to pay my back taxes, but I must live in America to pay the back tax I owe to the socialist government that I voted in." "Of course you vote Labour," Feldman replied, "I don't vote because I'm a socialist." Despite this, he did not generally discuss politics in public. An exception was made when he protested the campaign led by Anita Bryant against homosexuality during a promotional tour for The Last Remake of Beau Geste.

Feldman testified in 1971 in the obscenity trial for Oz magazine. He would not swear on the Bible but rather affirm. Throughout his testimony, he mocked the judge for being non-Christian.

Feldman, a lacto-ovo vegetarian, was a fan of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet. "I was about five and a half or six years old when I converted; now I'm forty-three years," the former president said in a 1979 interview.

Eye Marty: the recently discovered autobiography of a comic genius, which was brought to light following Lauretta's death. It was first published in 2012 with Eric Idle's foreword.

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Career

Feldman left school at 15 years old at the Dreamland fair in Margate but had aspirations of being a jazz trumpeter and appeared in the first group in which tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes was a member. Feldman mused that he was "the world's worst trumpet player." By the age of 20, he had decided to pursue a career as a comedian.

Although Feldman's early career was undistinguished, he became part of a comedy act — Morris, Marty, Mitch — who made their first television appearance on the BBC series Showcase in April 1955. Feldman worked on the scripts for Educating Archie in both its radio and television incarnations, with Ronald Chesney and later, Ronald Wolfe.

Feldman met Barry Took in 1954 while both were doing as writers, and with Took, he formed an ongoing writing partnership that lasted until 1974. They produced a few episodes of The Army Game (1960) and the bulk of Bootsie and Snudge (1960–62), which were both situation comedies produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams appeared in Round the Horne (1964–67), their best-remembered comedy collection, which appeared on BBC Radio. (Someone wrote Round the Horne's last book in 1968.) According to Denis Norden, Feldman and Took's work put them in the top of comedy writers.'

Feldman, who later became the chief writer and script editor on The Frost Report (1966–67). He co-wrote the much-anticipated "Class" sketch, in which John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbett appeared on stage, implying their increasing social class (Cleese), middle class (Barker) and working class (Corbett).

Feldman's reputation as a performer has grown at last in this television sketch comedy series At last, the 1948 Exhibition raised Feldman's profile as a performer. Graham Chapman and John Cleese, as well as future actor Tim Brooke-Taylor), needed a fourth cast member, and Feldman was in mind. Feldman's character bullied a patient shopping assistant (played by Clees) about a series of bogus books, gaining success with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying. According to Cleese, his character in the 1948 show Mr. Pest was often portrayed. Feldman, Chapman, Cleese, and Brooke-Taylor co-authored "Four Yorkshiremen," a sketch that was written for At Last the 1948 Show and later adapted by Monty Python for their stage performances.

Feldman appeared on the BBC in 1968, Marty Feldman; it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin, and Roland MacLeod, as one of the writers. Feldman received two BAFTA awards. It's Marty, the second series in 1969, was renamed (this name being retained for the series's DVD release).

Marty was able to launch a film career after winning the Golden Rose Award at Montreux in the first series. Feldman's first film role was in Every Home Should Have One (1970).

The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971–72) was a television series co-produced by Associated Television (ATV) in the United Kingdom and the American Broadcasting Company, which was produced in ATV's Elstree Studios, near London, near London. This vehicle was only good for one series.

Dennis Main Wilson produced a brief BBC sketch series called Marty Back Together Again in 1974, a reference to news about the actor's wellbeing, but no one could have captured the former series's impact.

Feldman played Igor (pronounced "EYE-gore") in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974), a comedic complement to Gene Wilder's claim that "it's pronounced FRONK-ENSCHTEEN." Several Young Frankenstein's lines were improvised. When he wrote the scene, Wilder claims he had Feldman in mind.

The Dean Martin Show was one of Feldman's on American television.

Feldman introduced him to Italian cinema in 1976, collaborating with Barbara Bouchet in the sex comedy 40 Gradi All'Ombra del Lenzuolo (Sex with a Smile). He appeared in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother and Brooks' Silent Film, as well as directing and acting in Beau Geste's Last Remake. He appeared in "Arabian Nights," an episode of The Muppet Show in which he was partnered with several Sesame Street characters, particularly Cookie Monster, with whom he posted a joking comparison of their eyes side by side.

Feldman's two albums, Marty (1968) and I Feel a Song Going Off (1969), were re-released in 1971 as The Crazy World of Marty Feldman, during his career. Denis King, John Junkin, and Bill Solly (a writer for Max Bygraves and The Two Ronnies) wrote the songs on his second album. In 2007, it was reprinted as a CD.

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