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Marty Feldman - Six Degrees Of Separation

Marty Feldman - Six Degrees Of Separation

  • TV documentary
  • BBC Four
  • 2008
  • 1 episode

Marty Feldman was one of the most influential names in British comedy in the 1960s, but an early death rendered him all but forgotten by the public. Features Denis Norden, Lyn Took, David Frost, Michael Palin, John Cleese and more.

Marty Feldman: The Biography Of A Comedy Legend

Mike Myers thinks he was "a genius", while John Cleese regards him as "a true cultural icon". He was an architect of British comedy, paving the way for Monty Python, and then became a major Hollywood star, forever remembered as Igor in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. A writer, director, performer and true pioneer of his art, he died aged only 48.

His name was Marty Feldman, and here, at last, is the first ever biography. Acclaimed author Robert Ross has interviewed Marty's friends and family, including his sister Pamela, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Michael Palin and Terry Jones, and also draws from extensive, previously unpublished and often hilarious interviews with Marty himself, taped in preparation for the autobiography he never wrote. No one before or since has had a career quite like Marty's. Beginning in the dying days of variety theatre, he went from the behind the scenes scriptwriting triumphs of Round The Horne and The Frost Report to onscreen stardom in At Last The 1948 Show and his own hit series Marty. That led to transatlantic success, his work with Mel Brooks, and a five-picture deal to write and direct his own movies.

First published: Thursday 8th September 2011

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