Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version of Mel Brooks' The Producers (1967). Mostel was a student of Don Richardson, and he used an acting technique based on muscle memory.[1][2][3] He was blacklisted during the 1950s; his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee was well publicised. Mostel later starred in the Hollywood Blacklist drama film The Front (1976) alongside Woody Allen, for which Mostel was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Mostel was an Obie Award and three-time Tony Award winner. He is also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, inducted posthumously in 1979.[4]
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Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of comic...
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into a successful film starring the original lead of the stage musical, ZeroMostel. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway on...
ZeroMostel and Michael Murphy. Several people involved in the making of the film—including screenwriter Bernstein, director Ritt, and actors Mostel,...
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season. 2 wins Norbert Leo Butz John Cullum Richard Kiley Nathan Lane ZeroMostel James Naughton Robert Preston George Rose Phil Silvers 3 Wins Pseudolus...
can be used to cover the head. Iñaki Anasagasti – Basque nationalist. ZeroMostel – actor, left-to-right and back-to-front. Alexander Lukashenko – President...
espionage thriller by Joseph Finder Zero Hour (play), a 2006 play by Jim Brochu about the life of actor ZeroMostel "Zero Hour", a story told in the Galileo...
Music Hall. In 1944 she married the actor ZeroMostel. The couple had two sons, Joshua and Tobias. Kate Mostel moved into acting, appearing on Broadway...
filmed. Sand also appeared in such motion pictures as The Hot Rock with ZeroMostel, The Second Coming of Suzanne alongside Sondra Locke, and The Main Event...
Levine is a 1970 American drama film directed by Ján Kadár and starring ZeroMostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kamińska, Milo O'Shea, and Gloria Foster. It is...
character, voiced by Gene Wilder, against the "Spell Binder", voiced by ZeroMostel, with Joan Rivers as the narrator. Plots revolve around Spell Binder...
broadcast a reading of the story "Chava" performed by Walter Matthau. ZeroMostel and Chaim Topol are the two actors most associated with the role of Tevye...
Buhle and Wagner (2003b), p. 53. Sainer, Arthur (1998). Zero Dances: A Biography of ZeroMostel. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879100964 – via Google...
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), a musical farce starring ZeroMostel, Jack Gilford, David Burns, and John Carradine. The production, with...
to convict Kincaid while the reverend and the gold fly safely away. ZeroMostel as Rev. Pious Blue Kim Novak as Sister Lyda Kebanov Clint Walker as Ranger...
wrote and starred Off-Broadway in Zero Hour, a one-person play about the life and career of actor and comedian ZeroMostel, from 2009–2010. For this performance...
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