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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 was well-publicized. He was a Tony Award and Obie Award winner.
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Zero Mostel Filmography (Cast)
Title: The Front
Character: Hecky Brown
Release Date: 1976-09-17
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 7
Vote Count: 171
Overview: A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Title: The Producers
Character: Max Bialystock
Release Date: 1968-03-18
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 7.09
Vote Count: 809
Overview: Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
Title: Sirocco
Character: Balukjiaan
Release Date: 1951-06-13
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5.8
Vote Count: 40
Overview: A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Title: Panic in the Streets
Character: Raymond Fitch
Release Date: 1950-07-27
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.9
Vote Count: 147
Overview: A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.
Title: The Enforcer
Character: ‘Big Babe’ Lazich
Release Date: 1951-02-24
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 7.129
Vote Count: 101
Overview: After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
Title: Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Character: Self (archive footage)
Release Date: 2013-05-20
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 8.167
Vote Count: 12
Overview: Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.
Title: Du Barry Was a Lady
Character: Rami – the Swami / Taliostra
Release Date: 1943-08-13
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.1
Vote Count: 14
Overview: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn’t love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he’s King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Title: Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Character: Emmett
Release Date: 1951-08-01
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.6
Vote Count: 7
Overview: Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind.
Title: Rhinoceros
Character: John
Release Date: 1974-01-21
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5.3
Vote Count: 14
Overview: A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
Title: Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: Max Bialystock (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date: 2007-05-10
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5
Vote Count: 1
Overview: A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Character: Pseudolus
Release Date: 1966-10-16
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.032
Vote Count: 109
Overview: A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Title: Muppet Treasures
Character: Self
Release Date: 1985-07-09
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 0
Vote Count: 0
Overview: Fozzie and Kermit have come across a priceless collection of great moments in the career of the Muppets. This collection features many Muppet TV segments, including episodes of “Pigs in Space,” and “Veterinarian’s Hospital.”
Title: Broadway’s Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Character: Pseudolus (“A Funny Thing Happened on the …”) (arch. foot.)
Release Date: 2005-08-07
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 7.2
Vote Count: 4
Overview: Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.
Title: Mastermind
Character: Inspector Hoku Ichihara
Release Date: 1969-06-03
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 3.3
Vote Count: 3
Overview: Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has delusions that he is a great Samurai warrior and the movie flashes back and forth between present day and ancient times.
Title: The Great Bank Robbery
Character: Rev. Pious Blue
Release Date: 1969-06-24
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.3
Vote Count: 10
Overview: A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880’s Texas.
Title: Fore Play
Character: President / Don Pasquale
Release Date: 1975-03-01
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 3
Vote Count: 3
Overview: A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.
Title: Great Catherine
Character: Potemkin
Release Date: 1968-11-29
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5.6
Vote Count: 7
Overview: When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace’s disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
Title: The Model and the Marriage Broker
Character: George Wixted
Release Date: 1951-11-01
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.4
Vote Count: 14
Overview: A marriage broker can’t resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
Title: Journey into Fear
Character: Kopelkin
Release Date: 1975-08-08
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5.6
Vote Count: 10
Overview: U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.
Title: The Angel Levine
Character: Morris Mishkin
Release Date: 1970-07-28
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5.7
Vote Count: 6
Overview: Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He’s a tailor, but he can’t work because his back has given out. He doesn’t even have enough money for Fanny’s medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he’s an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Title: The Guy Who Came Back
Character: Boots Mullins
Release Date: 1951-08-16
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 3
Vote Count: 1
Overview: Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
Title: Broadway’s Lost Treasures
Character: Tevye (segment “Fiddler On The Roof”)
Release Date: 2003-08-10
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5.6
Vote Count: 4
Overview: The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
Title: Remembering Gene Wilder
Character: Self (archive footage)
Release Date: 2024-03-15
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 7.231
Vote Count: 13
Overview: This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in ‘The Producers’, to the enigmatic title role in the original ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’, to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like ‘Silver Streak’.
Title: The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Character: Self (archive footage)
Release Date: 1986-01-21
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5
Vote Count: 1
Overview: For the first time in their careers, all the Muppets (except the ones that couldn’t make it, like the Doozers, Gorgs and most of the Fraggles) have gathered together in one place to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary and honor the one who brought them together: Kermit the Frog (and by doing so, Jim Henson).
Title: The Hot Rock
Character: Abe Greenberg
Release Date: 1972-01-26
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.527
Vote Count: 111
Overview: Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it…
Title: Once Upon a Scoundrel
Character: Carlos del Refugio
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5
Vote Count: 6
Overview: After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he’s a ghost.
Title: The Little Drummer Boy Book II
Character: Brutus (voice)
Release Date: 1976-12-13
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5.8
Vote Count: 15
Overview: Aaron, the drummer boy, struggles to protect a bellmaker’s great silver bells from seizure by Roman soldiers
Title: Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Character: Self (archive footage)
Release Date: 2018-02-17
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.429
Vote Count: 7
Overview: At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical “Young Frankenstein” opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yentob visits Mel at home in Hollywood, at work and at play.
Title: Watership Down
Character: Kehaar (voice)
Release Date: 1978-10-14
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 7.2
Vote Count: 643
Overview: When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Title: Waiting for Godot
Character: Estragon / Gogo
Release Date: 1961-01-01
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6
Vote Count: 1
Overview: Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for ‘Godot’ to make an appearance on Pozzo’s estate.
Title: Carol + 2
Character: Self
Release Date: 1966-03-22
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 0
Vote Count: 0
Overview: Carol + 2 was the title of the second of a multi-year series of television variety specials starring Carol Burnett which aired on the CBS Television network in the United States between 1962 and 1989. The first special was produced in 1962, featuring Burnett and Julie Andrews. Carol + 2 premiered on March 22, 1966, with Carol joined by actor Zero Mostel and the legendary Lucille Ball. The program was such a critical and ratings success that CBS rebroadcast it on January 15, 1967.
Title: Ride of the Valkyrie
Character:
Release Date: 1977-10-29
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 4
Vote Count: 1
Overview: An opera singer, dressed in full costume and dress, must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance. Filmed for the shelved portmanteau film ‘Red, White and Zero’ in 1967.
Title: Red, White, and Zero
Character:
Release Date: 1979-12-21
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 5
Vote Count: 1
Overview: Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors – Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in ‘Ride of the Valkyrie’. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, ‘The White Bus’ blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette ‘Red and Blue’. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
Title: Old Faithful
Character: Ranger Zeppel
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 0
Vote Count: 0
Overview: A forest ranger is asked by his boss to attract a record-breaking crowd to Yellowstone National Park. Various celebrities are enlisted to help.
Title: Saga of Sonora
Character: Heavy Harry
Release Date: 1973-05-03
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 0
Vote Count: 0
Overview: A musical TV special with Vince Edwards as a hero who must stop gold-greedy villains, Jill St. John and Zero Mostel, and prove his love to his girl, Lesley Ann Warren.
Title: Marco
Character: Kublai Khan
Release Date: 1973-12-01
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 0
Vote Count: 0
Overview: A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the mysterious Orient. Much of the story centers on Polo’s relationship with the powerful Kublai Khan.
Title: The World of Sholom Aleichem
Character: Melamed / Maxel
Release Date: 1959-12-14
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 0
Vote Count: 0
Overview: This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television’s Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each “tale” in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the “Yiddish Mark Twain”. Included are: “A Tale of Chelm” starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; “Bontche Schweig” about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and “The High School” about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.
Title: Best Boy
Character: Self
Release Date: 1979-10-05
Media: movie
Vote Avg: 6.3
Vote Count: 9
Overview: In this documentary, the director follows the day-to-day activities of his retarded, middle-aged cousin Philly, over a three-year period.
Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 5.75
Vote Count: 8
Overview: The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 6.705
Vote Count: 22
Overview: The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.
In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Title: The Electric Company
Character:
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 7.1
Vote Count: 20
Overview: The Electric Company is an educational American children’s television series that was produced by the Children’s Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977. After it ceased production that year, the program continued in reruns from 1977 to 1985, the result of a decision made in 1975 to produce two final seasons for perpetual use. CTW produced the show at Teletape Studios Second Stage in Manhattan, the first home of Sesame Street.
The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their grammar and reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduated from CTW’s flagship program, Sesame Street. Appropriately, the humor was more mature than what was seen there.
Title: The Muppet Show
Character: Self – Special Guest Star
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 8.025
Vote Count: 315
Overview: Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.
Title: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
Character: Self
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 6.5
Vote Count: 31
Overview: An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
Title: The Flip Wilson Show
Character: Self
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 4.765
Vote Count: 17
Overview: The Flip Wilson Show is an hour long variety show that aired in the U.S. on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience. Specifically, it was the first successful network variety series starring an African American. During its first two seasons, its Nielsen ratings made it the nation’s second most watched show.
The show consisted of many skits over an hour. It also broke new ground in American television by using a ‘Theatre-in-the-Round’ stage format, with the audience seated on all sides of a circular performance area.
Wilson was most famous for creating the role of Geraldine Jones, a sassy, modern woman who had a boyfriend named Killer. Flip also created the role of Reverend Leroy, who was the minister of the Church of What’s Happening Now!. New parishioners were wary of coming to the church as it was hinted that Reverend Leroy was a con artist. Wilson popularized such catchphrases as “What you see is what you get”, and “The devil made me do it!”.
Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 7.487
Vote Count: 79
Overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson’s Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self – Presenter
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 4.6
Vote Count: 9
Overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self – Nominee
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 4.6
Vote Count: 9
Overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self – Performer
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 4.6
Vote Count: 9
Overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self – Guest
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 6.69
Vote Count: 21
Overview: The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
Title: Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show
Character:
Release Date: N/A
Media: tv
Vote Avg: 0
Vote Count: 0
Overview: Dean Martin at his best, each episodes is a combination of extracted performances compiled by the Dean Martin Show’s director, Greg Garrison for a multi-DVD set. The performances from the 60s and 70s feature comedians and famous actors such as Jimmy Stewart, Don Rickles ,Tony Bennett, Marty Feldman; Jonathan Winters; Andy Griffith, Bill Cosby; Woody Allen; Frank Sinatra, Orson Wells, Zero Mostel. Flip Wilson, Gene Kelly, Peter Falk, Paul Lynde; Jack Benny; Mills Brothers; Phil Silvers, Fess Parker; Eddie Albert; Gladys Knight & Pips, and Jimmy Durante.
Zero Mostel Crew Credits
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Translations
- English (en): Zero Mostel — 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…
- Russian (ru): — Сэмюэл Джоэл «Зеро» Мостел (англ. Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel; 28 февраля 1915, Нью-Йорк, США — 8 сентября 1977, Филадельфия, Пенсильвания, США) — американский актёр театра и кино, наиболее известный как исполнитель ролей комедийного плана, таких как Тевье в мюзикле «Скрипач на крыше», Псевдол в Смешн…
- German (de): —
- Italian (it): — Zero Mostel, pseudonimo di Samuel Joel Mostel (New York, 28 febbraio 1915 – Filadelfia, 8 settembre 1977), è stato un attore statunitense.
Attivo al cinema ma soprattutto in teatro (vincitore di tre Tony Award), dopo gli esordi a Hollywood nei primi anni cinquanta, divenne famoso nelle cronache per…