The musical adaptation of the film version of The Producers is one of Mel Brooks’ greatest successes, but the veteran comedian has revealed it nearly didn’t happen. He wasn’t sure his 1967 ...

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 ...

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And so, right about now, Gene Wilder, his beloved Gilda Radner, Zero Mostel and Marty Feldman are having a reunion in the World to Come. And God is laughing his/her _____ off. No paywalls here.

Belafonte plays the titular angel, Alexander Levine, who is on work probation until he can successfully help a Jewish tailor, Zero Mostel’s Morris Mishkin, who is attending to his sick wife and ...

Drake credited Saluda Sister City for providing the connection, and Saluda Elementary Principal Tobree Mostel enthusiastically supported the Italy visit and created a process to select the teachers ...

Topol, who has died aged 87, was loved by generations of film and theatregoers for his portrayal of Tevye, the “soulful shtetl milkman” in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, said The New York Times.

The part of Tevye, the put-upon patriarch of a Jewish family in a “small village in Russia,” was originated on Broadway by Zero Mostel, a Brooklyn-born actor who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking ...

At the age of 62, Zero Mostel's heart muscle stopped beating, which ended his life. Best known for films The Front (1976) and posthumously Watershed Down (1978), what could have lead to the star's ...