This article is about the actor. For the football player, see Marty Feldman (American football).
Marty Feldman
Feldman in 1969
Born
Martin Alan Feldman
(1934-07-08)8 July 1934
London, England
Died
2 December 1982(1982-12-02) (aged 48)
Mexico City, Mexico
Occupations
Actor
comedian
comedy writer
Years active
1948–1982
Spouse
Lauretta Sullivan
(m. 1959)
Children
2
Awards
BAFTAs: Best Light Entertainment Performance 1968 Marty Best Writer 1968 Marty
Martin Alan Feldman (8 July 1934[1] – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedian and comedy writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes.[2][3][4]
He initially gained prominence as a writer with Barry Took on the ITV sitcom Bootsie and Snudge and the BBC Radio comedy programme Round the Horne. He became known as a performer on At Last the 1948 Show (co-writing the "Four Yorkshiremen sketch" which Monty Python would perform) and Marty, the latter of which won Feldman two British Academy Television Awards including Best Entertainment Performance in 1969.
Feldman went on to appear in films such as The Bed Sitting Room and Every Home Should Have One, the latter of which was one of the most popular comedies at the British box office in 1970.[5] In 1971, he starred in the comedy-variety sketch series for ATV called The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine. In 1974, he appeared as Igor in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, for which he received the first Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He died in 1982 of a heart attack while filming Yellowbeard in Mexico City.[6]
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^Chilton, Martin (13 January 2016). "The mad world of Marty Feldman". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
^Harper, Sue (2011). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh University Press. p. 269. ISBN 9780748654260.
^Lawson, Carol (4 December 1982). "Marty Feldman, Film Comic, Victim Of Heart Attack At 48". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 November 2021. Marty Feldman, the wild-eyed British comedian [...] died Thursday in his hotel room in Mexico City.
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professionally for the BBC, initially for David Frost but also for MartyFeldman. Frost had recruited Cleese, and in turn Cleese decided he needed Chapman...
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sketch was written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and MartyFeldman, and originally performed in 1967 on their TV series At Last the 1948...
anything where he could include Peter Boyle and MartyFeldman, his two new clients. Having just seen Feldman on television, Wilder was inspired to write a...
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LWT on 14 November 1968 and written by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, MartyFeldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor. Cleese, Chapman, and Brooke-Taylor also feature...
Carol Burnett Show (1967) (TV) The Tim Conway Show (1970) (TV) The MartyFeldman Comedy Machine (1971) (TV) Silent Movie (with Mel Brooks, Barry Levinson...
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