Marty Feldman

Marty Feldman was born on Jul 08, 1934 in UK. Marty Feldman's big-screen debut came with Marty - Season 2 directed by Roger Race in 1968, strarring Various Characters. Marty Feldman is known for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl directed by Terry Hughes, Graham Chapman stars as Second Barber and John Cleese as First Barbter. Marty Feldman has got 4 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Marty Feldman achieved is Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. The upcoming new movie Marty Feldman plays is Yellowbeard which will be released on Jun 24, 1983.

"I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up," Marty Feldman told a reporter -- a week before he died.This beloved comedian, who poked fun at himself, as well as others, was born Martin Alan Feldman on July 8, 1934, in London, England. His parents were of Ukrainian Jewish heritage (from Kiev). He was the son of Cecilia (née Crook) and Myer Feldman, a gown manufacturer. Marty spent his childhood in the poverty-stricken London East End and left school at the age of 15, hoping for a career as a jazz trumpeter (his appearance in a Variety show earned him the title "the worst trumpeter in the world"). He had just started his comedy career, as a writer for BBC radio programs and TV shows in the late 1950s, when he married Lauretta Sullivan in January 1959 (they would stay married until his death in 1982). There's a saying: "Your face is your fortune"; Marty had received a double-whammy. His nose was mangled in his youthful years in a boxing match; his walleyed orbs were the result of both a hyperactive thyroid and a botched operation after a car accident before his 30th birthday, in 1963. American audiences first saw Marty in Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (1968), where he did comedy skits with Susie Ewing and the Golddiggers. He appeared in a number of movies, his most-remembered role being that of Igor (pronounced Eye-Gor) in Frankenstein junior (1974). Besides acting, he made his directorial debut in Mon 'Beau' légionnaire (1977). Beloved and popular, it seemed Marty was to enjoy a long career in the entertainment field. However, he died of a massive heart attack, caused by shellfish food poisoning, while filming Barbe d'or et les pirates (1983) in Mexico City, on December 2, 1982... he was only 48.