Zero Mostel
Born: 1915-02-28 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: 1977-08-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye onstage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus onstage and onscreen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version of The Producers. He was blacklisted during the 1950s, and his testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities was well-publicized. He was a Tony Award and Obie Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zero Mostel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2024
- Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Hitler: The Comedy Years as Max Bialystock (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Pseudolus ("A Funny Thing Happened on the ...") (arch. foot.)
2003
- Broadway's Lost Treasures as Tevye (segment "Fiddler On The Roof")
1986
- The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Muppet Treasures as Self
1979
- Best Boy as Self
1978
- Watership Down as Kehaar (voice)
1977
1976
- The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
- Mastermind as Inspector Hoku Ichihara
- The Front as Hecky Brown
- The Little Drummer Boy: Book II as Brutus (voice)
1975
- Fore Play as President / Don Pasquale
- Journey into Fear as Kopelkin
1974
- Rhinoceros as John
1973
- Old Faithful as Ranger Zeppel
- Marco as Kublai Khan
- Saga of Sonora as Heavy Harry
- Once Upon a Scoundrel as Carlos del Refugio
1972
- The Hot Rock as Abe Greenberg
1971
1970
- The Flip Wilson Show as Self
- The Angel Levine as Morris Mishkin
1969
- The Great Bank Robbery as Rev. Pious Blue
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Great Catherine as Potemkin
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- The Producers as Max Bialystock
- Red, White, and Zero
1966
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Pseudolus
- Carol + 2 as Self
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- Waiting for Godot as Estragon / Gogo
1959
- The World of Sholom Aleichem as Melamed / Maxel
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1951
- Sirocco as Balukjiaan
- The Model and the Marriage Broker as George Wixted
- Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell as Emmett
- The Guy Who Came Back as Boots Mullins
- The Enforcer as 'Big Babe' Lazich
1950
- Panic in the Streets as Raymond Fitch
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1943
- Du Barry Was a Lady as Rami, the Swami / Taliostra