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Martin Alan Feldman (8 July 1934 [1] – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedian and comedy writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. [2] [3] [4]He initially gained prominence as a writer with Barry Took on the ITV sitcom Bootsie and Snudge and the BBC Radio comedy programme Round the Horne.
Marty Feldman as Igor, a hunchbacked servant of Victor Frankenstein who works with Frederick; Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher, the housekeeper of the Frankenstein estate; Teri Garr as Inga, a young woman who becomes Frederick's assistant; Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp, a one-eyed police inspector with a prosthetic arm; Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth
The comedy film Young Frankenstein features the character Igor (portrayed by Marty Feldman), a crazy eyed hunchback who becomes the assistant of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (portrayed by Gene Wilder), both their grandfathers having coincidentally worked together. The duo begin working on creating the monster from the corpse of a hanged criminal.
[5] [verification needed] Marty Feldman, who played the hunchback Igor in Young Frankenstein, later said: It's a terribly old music hall joke. I did that to make the crew laugh and Mel Brooks said, "Let's shoot it" ... [Gene Wilder and I] both said, "Mel, please take that out", and he left it in. He said, "I think it's funny". Audiences laugh ...
Marty Feldman – Young Frankenstein as Igor; Ida Lupino – The Devil's Rain as Mrs. Preston; Best Advertising Best Cinematography Jaws; Douglas Slocombe – Rollerball; Best Make-up Best Music; William J. Tuttle – Young Frankenstein; Miklós Rózsa (for his career) Best Set Decoration Best Special Effects; Robert De Vestel and Dale Hennesy ...
In Mel Brooks’s masterpiece, Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) inherits his grandfather’s estate in Transylvania and resumes his monster-making experiments with the help of servants Igor (Marty ...
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear, and Leo McKern. [3] The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script.
Ebert criticizes the film for apparently believing Feldman himself is inherently funny, and for failing to have the necessary material to build on. [6] Peter Ackroyd of The Spectator described the film as "an agreeable, under-stated little comedy which, like all such affairs, runs out of steam before the close."