Actor
Zero Mostel
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Remembering Gene Wilder | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- Mel Brooks: Make a Noise | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- Hitler: The Comedy Years | Max Bialystock (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005 -- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards | Pseudolus ("A Funny Thing Happened on the ...") (arch. foot.)
2003 -- Broadway's Lost Treasures | Tevye (segment "Fiddler On The Roof")
1986 -- The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years | Self (archive footage)
1985 -- Muppet Treasures | Self
1979 -- Red, White, and Zero |
1978 -- Watership Down | Kehaar (voice)
1977 -- Ride of the Valkyrie |
1976 -- The Little Drummer Boy Book II | Brutus (voice)
1976 -- The Front | Hecky Brown
1975 -- Journey into Fear | Kopelkin
1975 -- Fore Play | President / Don Pasquale
1974 -- Rhinoceros | John
1973 -- Marco | Kublai Khan
1973 -- Saga of Sonora | Heavy Harry
1973 -- Old Faithful | Ranger Zeppel
1973 -- Once Upon a Scoundrel | Carlos del Refugio
1972 -- The Hot Rock | Abe Greenberg
1970 -- The Angel Levine | Morris Mishkin
1969 -- The Great Bank Robbery | Rev. Pious Blue
1969 -- Mastermind | Inspector Hoku Ichihara
1968 -- Great Catherine | Potemkin
1968 -- The Producers | Max Bialystock
1966 -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Pseudolus
1966 -- Carol + 2 | Self
1961 -- Waiting for Godot | Estragon
1959 -- The World of Sholom Aleichem | Melamed / Maxel
1951 -- The Model and the Marriage Broker | George Wixted
1951 -- The Guy Who Came Back | Boots Mullins
1951 -- Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell | Emmett
1951 -- Sirocco | Balukjiaan
1951 -- The Enforcer | 'Big Babe' Lazich
1950 -- Panic in the Streets | Raymond Fitch
1943 -- Du Barry was a Lady | Rami - the Swami / Taliostra
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