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Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend

by Robert Ross
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780857683786
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
  • Publisher Imprint: Titan Books (UK)
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  • Pages: 336
  • Original Price: USD 25.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 654 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Entertainment & Performing Arts

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his sister Pamela, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Michael Palin and Terry Jones, and also draws from extensive, previously unpublished and often hilarious interviews with Marty himself, taped in preparation for the autobiography he never wrote.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.

From his youth as a tramp on the streets of London, to the height of his fame in America - where he encountered everyone from Orson Welles to Kermit the Frog, before his Hollywood dream became a nightmare - this is the fascinating story of a key figure in the history of comedy, fully told for the first time.

Robert Ross has been a writer for ten years and his work varies from books on the Carry On films to Doctor Who audio plays.

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