The Producers
1968
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Zero Mostel. Actor: The Producers. Zero Mostel was born Samuel Joel Mostel on February 28, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, one of eight children of an Orthodox Jewish family. Raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the young Zero, known as Sammy, developed his talent for painting and drawing at art classes provided by the Educational Alliance, an institution serving Jewish immigrants and their ...
Sep 9, 1977 · Zero Mostel, the elephantine actor who became a legend on Broadway with his poignant portrayal of the woebegotten dairyman Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof,” died of cardiac arrest, last night at ...
This volatile, stage-trained comic actor made his film debut playing dual roles in "Du Barry Was a Lady" (1943). Mostel's solid, bulky build and heavy-lidded eyes made him a convincing heavy, but his promising film career (e.g., "Panic in the Streets" 1950) was cut short when he was blacklisted following his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951.
Apr 12, 2020 · Zero Mostel has been nominated for several awards throughout his career. He received nominations for Outstanding Performance (Drama Desk Awards) for his role in "Ulysses in Nighttown".
Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel 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).
Zero Mostel. If musical comedy is larger than life, only one performer was larger than musical comedy. The son of an itinerant rabbi, Samuel Joel Mostel was born in Brownsville, the same poor ...
Zero Mostel got his first starring role as Hamilton Peachum opposite Alfred Drake’s MacHeath in 1946 in Duke Ellington and John La Touche’s Beggar’s Holiday. Between the blacklisting and stage plays, Mostel would not return to the musical form on Broadway until 1962, when he played Pseudolus in the original run of Stephen Sondheim’s ...
