The Producers
1968
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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 characters including 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).
Zero Mostel was a comedian, actor and painter who starred in The Producers and other Broadway shows. He was blacklisted in the 1950s for his political views and refused to name names before HUAC.
- January 1, 1
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Sep 9, 1977 · A spokesman for the hospital said Mr. Mostel took a turn for the worse late yesterday, developed a cardiac arrest, and died as 7:47 P.M. Marvin Krauss, general manager of “The ‘Merchant ...
Zero Mostel stars as a Broadway producer who schemes to make money by staging a flop musical about Hitler. The film is a comedy classic by Mel Brooks, with Gene Wilder and Dick Shawn as his partners in crime.
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- Comedy, Music
- Mel Brooks
- 1968-11-10
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Feb 28, 2011 · Learn about the life and career of Zero Mostel, who rose to fame in musicals like Fiddler on the Roof and The Producers, but faced the anti-Communist witch hunt in the 1950s. Find out how he refused to name names, survived the blacklist, and returned to the stage and screen.
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The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film. It was written and directed by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.The film is about a con artist theater producer and his accountant who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical purposely designed to fail.
