'[23], Feldman died from a heart attack,[11] in a hotel room in Mexico City on 2 December 1982 at age 48, during the making of the film Yellowbeard; the film was subsequently dedicated to him. [22], Feldman was a vegetarian. '[21] However, he generally did not seriously discuss politics in public. Feldman died from a heart attack in a hotel room in Mexico City on 2 December 1982 at age 48, during the making of the film Yellowbeard; the film was subsequently dedicated to him. Marty Feldman was married to producer Lauretta Feldman. He recalled his childhood as "solitary". In 1976, Feldman ventured into Italian cinema, starring with Barbara Bouchet in the sex comedy 40 Gradi All'Ombra del Lenzuolo (Sex With A Smile). He got married to Lauretta Sullivanin 1952 and their relationship lasted until his death in 1982. [16] She died, aged 74, in Studio City, Los Angeles. [6] Feldman moved to the United States after becoming well-known on American variety shows. [9] [13] Feldman was co-author - along with Chapman, Cleese and Brooke-Taylor - of the sketch "Four Yorkshiremen", which was written for At Last the 1948 Show.[9]. "Marty Feldman versus the Suits" by Mike Kuhlenbeck, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, "Book reviews: eyE Marty, Number 11 and Things That Nobody Knows", "Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation", "The Unorthodox Comedian - The Official Marty Feldman website! [9] (The last season of Round the Horne, in 1968, was written by others.) Feldman's first feature film role was in Every Home Should Have One (1970). [15] It was later released as a CD in 2007. Marty proved popular enough with an international audience (the first series winning the Golden Rose Award at Montreux) to launch a film career. The movie actor Marty Feldman died at the age of 48. Feldman died from a heart attack in a hotel room in Mexico City on 2 December 1982 at age 48, during the making of the film Yellowbeard; the film was subsequently dedicated to him. Feldman went on to appear in films such as The Bed Sitting Room and Every Home Should Have One, the latter of which was one of the most popular comedies at the British box office in 1970. Was Marty Feldman married? In a 1979 interview, when asked how long he had practised this, he stated: 'I was about five and a half or six when I converted; I'm forty-three now, so it's been approximately thirty-eight years. I wish I did.” (Marty Feldman), Copyright © 2020 /  The Celebrity Deaths.com  /  All Rights Reserved. Wilder says he had Feldman in mind when he wrote the part. For the football player, see. He quickly became a celebrity in the United Kingdom. An exception was when during a promotional tour for The Last Remake of Beau Geste, he denounced the campaign led by Anita Bryant against homosexuality. [2][3][4][5] He initially gained prominence as a writer with Barry Took on the ITV sitcom Bootsie and Snudge and the BBC Radio comedy programme Round the Horne. [9], Feldman suffered from thyroid disease and developed Graves' ophthalmopathy, causing his eyes to protrude and become misaligned. [17] Feldman's peers have reported, in a number of biographies, that he was highly attractive to women in spite of his unconventional facial appearance. With John Law, he co-wrote the much-shown "Class" sketch, in which John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett faced the audience, with their descending order of height, suggesting their relative social status as upper class (Cleese), middle class (Barker) and working class (Corbett). Forest Lawn,   Los Angeles,  California,  United States. Marty Feldman died of heart failure on December 2, 1982, in Mexico City in his hotel room while they were making the comedy film Yellowbeard. Many lines in Young Frankenstein were improvised. Feldman's performances on American television included The Dean Martin Show. On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman's death: 'He sometimes smoked half a carton (five packs) of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products. He later appeared in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother and Brooks' Silent Movie, as well as directing and starring in The Last Remake of Beau Geste. Leaving school at 15, Feldman worked at the Dreamland funfair in Margate,[9] but had dreams of a career as a jazz trumpeter, and performed in the first group in which tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes was a member. During the course of his career, Feldman recorded two albums, Marty (1968) and I Feel a Song Going Off (1969), re-released in 1971 as The Crazy World of Marty Feldman. [9] By this point, preparation had begun on The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971–72), a television series co-produced by Associated Television (ATV) in the UK and the American Broadcasting Company, and which was produced at ATV's Elstree Studios, near London. Feldman was married to Lauretta Sullivan (29 September 1935 – 12 March 2010) from January 1959 until his death in 1982. [1] Later in the decade, Feldman worked on the scripts for Educating Archie in both its radio and television incarnations, with Ronald Chesney and later, Ronald Wolfe. This vehicle lasted for just one series. [9] He spent time in Soho jazz clubs, as he found a parallel between 'riffing' in a comedy partnership and the improvisation of jazz.[9]. Feldman was born on 8 July 1934 in East London, the son of Cecilia (née Crook) and Myer Feldman, a gown manufacturer,[7][8] who were Jewish immigrants from Kiev, Ukraine. Feldman was given his own series on the BBC, Marty, in 1968;[9] it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, with Cleese as one of the writers. On film, in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974), Feldman played Igor (pronounced "EYE-gore", a comic response to Gene Wilder's claim that 'it's pronounced FRONK-EN-SCHTEEN'). [9] In a sketch broadcast on 1 March 1967, Feldman's character harassed a patient shop assistant (played by Cleese) regarding a series of fictitious books, achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying. [2][4][9][10] He later described his appearance as a factor in his career success: "If I aspired to be Robert Redford, I'd have my eyes straightened and my nose fixed and end up like every other lousy actor, with two lines on Kojack [sic]. For BBC Radio they wrote Round the Horne (1964–67), their best-remembered comedy series, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams. He became known as a performer on At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards. On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman’s death: “He smoked sometimes half a carton (5 packs) of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products.”. - IMDb Mini Biography By: kdhaisch@aol.com. Although his early performing career was undistinguished, Feldman became part of a comedy act — Morris, Marty and Mitch — who made their first television appearance on the BBC series Showcase in April 1955. However, he died of a massive heart attack, caused by shellfish food poisoning, while filming Yellowbeard (1983) in Mexico City, on December 2, 1982... he was only 48. He also guest-starred in "Arabian Nights", an episode of The Muppet Show in which he was teamed up with several Sesame Street characters, especially Cookie Monster, with whom he shared a playful cameo comparing their eyes side by side. [1] They wrote a few episodes of The Army Game (1960) and the bulk of Bootsie and Snudge (1960–62), both situation comedies made by Granada Television for the ITV network. The second series in 1969 was retitled It's Marty (this title being retained for the DVD release of the series). [12] Feldman joked that he was 'the world's worst trumpet player'. His character in At Last the 1948 Show was often called Mr. Pest, according to Cleese. In 1971, Feldman gave evidence in favour of the defendants in the obscenity trial for Oz magazine. Crazy-eyed comic actor who became known to audiences for his role as Igor in Young Frankenstein. This work placed Feldman and Took 'in the front rank of comedy writers', according to Denis Norden. [18], Politically, Feldman was described as an 'avowed socialist'[19] telling one interviewer 'I'm a socialist by conviction, if not by lifestyle'[20] and another, 'I'm a socialist from way back, but in order to pay my back taxes I have to live in America to earn enough money to pay the back tax I owe to the socialist government that I voted in. The other three participants (future Monty Python members Graham Chapman and John Cleese; and future star of The Goodies, Tim Brooke-Taylor) needed a fourth cast member, and had Feldman in mind. ', Feldman is buried in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery near his idol, Buster Keaton, in the Garden of Heritage. '[9] He later joked that when a Labour cabinet minister said to him 'Of course you vote Labour,' Feldman replied, 'No, I don't, because I'm a socialist! Feldman died from a heart attack, in a hotel room in Mexico City on 2 December 1982 at age 48, during the making of the film Yellowbeard; the film was subsequently dedicated to him. [14], In 1974, Dennis Main Wilson produced a short BBC sketch series for Feldman titled Marty Back Together Again — a reference to reports about the star's health — but it never captured the impact of the earlier series. On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman's death: 'He sometimes smoked half a carton (five packs) of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products.' 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