Marty Feldman
Highest Rated: 94% Young Frankenstein (1974)
Lowest Rated: 22% Yellowbeard (1983)
Birthday: Jul 8, 1933
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Wild-haired, pop-eyed British comedian Marty Feldman dropped out of school at 15 in hopes of becoming a jazz trumpeter. Instead he found steady work as a radio comedy writer, first for the popular BBC weekly Educating Archie (which in the tradition of Edgar Bergen starred a ventriloquist and his dummy), and most famously for Kenneth Horne's Round the Horne, which ran from 1965 to 1969. Round the Horne would become something of a cult favorite when it was rebroadcast on American public radio in the 1970s to capitalize on Feldman's latter-day fame. Toiling away on many of Britain's best satirical TV and radio series of the 1960s, Feldman avoided the cameras, feeling that he was a bit too grotesque-looking for public consumption. Once he did start acting as well as writing, the public loved him and begged for more. His biggest British TV break was The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, in which he appeared in lightning-paced sketches (often artificially sped up, "Benny Hill" style) with some of the best English comedy talent available, most notably the great Spike Milligan. Feldman was introduced to American TV audiences when he co-starred on Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London, the 1970 summer replacement for The Dean Martin Show (an Americanized Marty Feldman Comedy Machine would be broadcast briefly two years later). Having made his film debut in The Bed Sitting Room (1969), Feldman became a U.S. movie favorite with his role as Igor, Gene Wilder's bemused hunchbacked assistant (whose hump switched shoulders from scene to scene), in director Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1973). Feldman later co-starred with Brooks and Dom DeLuise as a Ritz Brothers-like team of movie producers in Silent Movie (1975); his manic tango with Anne Bancroft, wherein the actress deftly imitated Feldman's cross-eyed squint, was the highlight of the film. In 1977, Feldman followed the footsteps of fellow Mel Brooks alumnus Gene Wilder by directing as well as starring in The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), an uneven but hilarious spoof in which Feldman cast himself as the twin brother of Michael York! A second directorial effort, the organized-religion takeoff In God We Trust (1979), was such a disaster that Feldman was obliged to confine himself to acting assignments for the rest of his career. While filming the all-star "comedy salad" Yellowbeard in Mexico City, Feldman died suddenly of heart failure. He is buried at Hollywood's Forest Lawn Cemetery in close proximity to the grave of his lifelong idol, Buster Keaton.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22% | Yellowbeard | Gilbert | — | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | Slapstick of Another Kind | Sylvester | — | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | In God We Tru$t (In God We Trust) (Gimme That Prime Time Religion) | Director Brother Ambrose | — | 1980 |
| 45% | The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Screenwriter | — | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | Sex With A Smile (40 gradi all'ombra del lenzuolo) | "The Bodyguard" male | — | 1976 |
| 79% | Silent Movie | Marty Eggs | — | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother | Olville Sacker | — | 1975 |
| 94% | Young Frankenstein | Igor | — | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins | Screenwriter | — | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | Think Dirty | Teddy | — | 1970 |
| 64% | The Bed Sitting Room | Nurse Arthur | — | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | At Last the 1948 Show | Actor | — | 1967 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% |
The Muppet Show 1976-1981 |
Guest |
1980 |
| No Score Yet |
The Flip Wilson Show 1970-1974 |
Guest |
1973 1971 |
QUOTES FROM Marty Feldman CHARACTERS
Marty Eggs says: Would you mind dancing with a mild-mannered pervert?
Igor says: What hump?
Igor says: My grandfather use to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.
Igor says: Dr. Frankenstein?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Frokensteen.
Igor says: You're putting me on.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: No, it pronounced, "Frokensteen".
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: No, it pronounced, 'Frokensteen'.
Igor says: Do you also say Froaderick?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: No . . . "Frederick."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: No... 'Frederick.'
Igor says: Well, why isn't it "Froaderick Frokensteen"?
Igor says: Well, why isn't it 'Froaderick Frokensteen'?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: It isn't, it's "Frederick Frokensteen"
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: It isn't, it's 'Frederick Frokensteen'.
Igor says: I see.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: You must be Igor. [He pronounces it ee-gor.]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: You must be Igor. [he pronounces it ee-gor.]
Igor says: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."
Igor says: No, it's pronounced 'eye-gor.'
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: But they told me it was "ee-gor"..
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: But they told me it was 'ee-gor'..
Igor says: Well, they were wrong then, weren"t they?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Whose brain did you put in him?
Igor says: Err... Abby something...
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Abby who?
Igor says: Abby... Normal. Yes that's it, Abby Normal!
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Are you saying that you put an abnormal brain in a 7 foot tall, 54 inch wide GORILLA!!!???
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Are you saying that you put an abnormal brain in a 7 foot tall, 54 inch wide GORILLA?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: You must be Igor?
Igor says: No, it's pronounced, 'Eyegor'.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: They told me it was Igor.
Igor says: Well they were wrong then, weren't they?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: What a filthy job!
Igor says: Could be worse.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: How?
Igor says: Could be raining. *starts raining*
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Damn your eyes!
Igor says: Too late.
Igor says: Not the third switch!
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Igor, help me with the bags.
Igor says: [Imitating Groucho Marx] Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban.
Igor says: Sed-a......Sed-a......Dirty word! He said a dirty word!
Igor says: Sed-a... Sed-a... Dirty word! He said a dirty word!
Igor says: "I've got no body, nobody's got me. Hachachacha."
Igor says: I've got no body, nobody's got me. Hachachacha.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: "Igor!"
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Igor!
Igor says: "Froedrick!"
Igor says: Froedrick!
Igor says: "Dr. Frankenstein?"
Igor says: Dr. Frankenstein?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: "Fronkensteen."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: Fronkensteen.
Igor says: "What?"
Igor says: What?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: "My name is Dr. FRONKENSTEEN."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: My name is Dr. FRONKENSTEEN.
Igor says: "Do you say Froedrick?"
Igor says: Do you say Froedrick?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: "No, it's Frederick. But you must be Eegor."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: No, it's Frederick. But you must be Eegor.
Igor says: "It's Igor."
Igor says: It's Igor.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: "But they told me it was Eegor!"
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: But they told me it was Eegor!
Igor says: "Well I guess they'd be wrong then, wouldn't they.!"
Igor says: Well I guess they'd be wrong then, wouldn't they.
Igor says: I can remember what my dad used to say in times like this.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: What did he say?
Igor says: 'What the hell are you doing in the bathroom all day and night? Give someone else a chance!'
Igor says: Abby... Abby normal
Igor says: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: What a filthy job.
Igor says: Could be worse.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein says: How?
Igor says: Could be raining...(Thunder followed by rain)
Igor says: Could be raining. [thunder followed by rain]
Igor says: walk this way
Igor says: Walk this way.
Igor says: What hump?