Marty Feldman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martin Alan Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedian and comedy writer, known for his prominent eyes; he suffered from thyroid disease and developed Graves' ophthalmopathy, causing his eyes to protrude and become misaligned. He recognized his appearance as a factor in his career success. Feldman starred in several British television comedy series, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards. He also co-created the BBC Radio comedy programme Round the Horne. Feldman starred in Every Home Should Have One, one of the most popular comedies at the British box office in 1970. He was the first Saturn Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Igor in Mel Brooks' 1974 comedy horror film Young Frankenstein.

In God We Tru$t (1980)

A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marty Feldman
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Peter Boyle  •  Louise Lasser  •  Richard Pryor

A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marty Feldman
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Peter Boyle  •  Louise Lasser  •  Richard Pryor

Silent Movie (1976)

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Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Brooks
CAST:  Mel Brooks  •  Marty Feldman  •  Dom DeLuise  •  Sid Caesar

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Brooks
CAST:  Mel Brooks  •  Marty Feldman  •  Dom DeLuise  •  Sid Caesar

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)

After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gene Wilder
CAST:  Gene Wilder  •  Madeline Kahn  •  Marty Feldman  •  Dom DeLuise

After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gene Wilder
CAST:  Gene Wilder  •  Madeline Kahn  •  Marty Feldman  •  Dom DeLuise

Young Frankenstein (1974)

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A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Brooks
CAST:  Gene Wilder  •  Marty Feldman  •  Madeline Kahn  •  Cloris Leachman

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Brooks
CAST:  Gene Wilder  •  Marty Feldman  •  Madeline Kahn  •  Cloris Leachman

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Lester
CAST:  Rita Tushingham  •  Ralph Richardson  •  Peter Cook  •  Dudley Moore

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Lester
CAST:  Rita Tushingham  •  Ralph Richardson  •  Peter Cook  •  Dudley Moore

Yellowbeard (1983)

For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Damski
CAST:  Graham Chapman  •  Martin Hewitt  •  Eric Idle  •  Peter Cook

For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Damski
CAST:  Graham Chapman  •  Martin Hewitt  •  Eric Idle  •  Peter Cook

Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (1982)

A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Paul
CAST:  Jerry Lewis  •  Madeline Kahn  •  Marty Feldman  •  Jim Backus

A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Paul
CAST:  Jerry Lewis  •  Madeline Kahn  •  Marty Feldman  •  Jim Backus

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marty Feldman
CAST:  Ann-Margret  •  Marty Feldman  •  Michael York  •  Peter Ustinov

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marty Feldman
CAST:  Ann-Margret  •  Marty Feldman  •  Michael York  •  Peter Ustinov

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Graham Stark
CAST:  Spike Milligan  •  Marty Feldman  •  Leslie Phillips  •  Harry H. Corbett

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Graham Stark
CAST:  Spike Milligan  •  Marty Feldman  •  Leslie Phillips  •  Harry H. Corbett

Sex with a Smile (1976)

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino
CAST:  Aldo Maccione  •  Barbara Bouchet  •  Edwige Fenech  •  Renzo Rinaldi

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino
CAST:  Aldo Maccione  •  Barbara Bouchet  •  Edwige Fenech  •  Renzo Rinaldi

Every Home Should Have One (1970)

Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jim Clark
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Judy Cornwell  •  Garry Miller  •  Shelley Berman

Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jim Clark
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Judy Cornwell  •  Garry Miller  •  Shelley Berman

Marty Feldman: What Do I Spy With My Little Eye? (1974)

An intimate portrait of the comedian Marty Feldman, following him preparing from a UK tour and at home with his wife Lauretta. He talks openly about his childhood and his admiration for Buster Keaton. The final scenes show Lauretta packing and the two of them ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jochen Wolf
CAST:  Marty Feldman

An intimate portrait of the comedian Marty Feldman, following him preparing from a UK tour and at home with his wife Lauretta. He talks openly about his childhood and his admiration for Buster Keaton. The final scenes show Lauretta packing and the two of them ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jochen Wolf
CAST:  Marty Feldman

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Trachtenberg
CAST:  Mel Brooks  •  Joan Rivers  •  Carl Reiner  •  Tracey Ullman

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Trachtenberg
CAST:  Mel Brooks  •  Joan Rivers  •  Carl Reiner  •  Tracey Ullman

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation (2008)

A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the system quickly withdrew its support when they couldn't contain his talents. This portrait is spiked with many comments from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Simpson
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Nigel Planer  •  John Cleese  •  Tim Brooke-Taylor

A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the system quickly withdrew its support when they couldn't contain his talents. This portrait is spiked with many comments from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Simpson
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Nigel Planer  •  John Cleese  •  Tim Brooke-Taylor

Group Madness (1983)

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard  (more)

DIRECTION:  Phillip Schuman  •  Michael Mileham
CAST:  Graham Chapman  •  Peter Boyle  •  David Bowie  •  Peter Bull

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard  (more)

DIRECTION:  Phillip Schuman  •  Michael Mileham
CAST:  Graham Chapman  •  Peter Boyle  •  David Bowie  •  Peter Bull

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein (1996)

Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Patrick Cousans
CAST:  Stanford C. Allen  •  Marty Feldman  •  William D. Gordean  •  Michael Gruskoff

Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Patrick Cousans
CAST:  Stanford C. Allen  •  Marty Feldman  •  William D. Gordean  •  Michael Gruskoff

One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously (1969)

Documentary film in which Marty Feldman looks at humour through the people who create it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Megahy
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Dudley Moore  •  Peter Sellers  •  Johnny Speight

Documentary film in which Marty Feldman looks at humour through the people who create it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Megahy
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Dudley Moore  •  Peter Sellers  •  Johnny Speight

Double Bill (1969)

In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John McGrath
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Joby Blanshard  •  Eileen Atkins  •  Donald Gee

In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John McGrath
CAST:  Marty Feldman  •  Joby Blanshard  •  Eileen Atkins  •  Donald Gee

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star (2020)

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #4: FOLLOW YOUR OWN STAR is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For this latest tape, our deep dive into ...  (more)

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CAST:  John Carpenter  •  Billy Crystal  •  Cheech Marin  •  Tommy Chong

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #4: FOLLOW YOUR OWN STAR is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For this latest tape, our deep dive into ...  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  John Carpenter  •  Billy Crystal  •  Cheech Marin  •  Tommy Chong