Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend - Ross Robert
Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend - Ross Robert Mike Myers thinks he was "a genius", while John Cleese regards him as "a true cultural icon". A writer, director, performer and true…
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Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend - Ross Robert
Mike Myers thinks he was "a genius", while John Cleese regards him as "a true cultural icon". 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. 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.
Beginning in the dying days of variety theatre, he went from the behind the scenes 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his sister Pamela, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Michael Palin and Terry Jones, and also draws from extensive, previously unpublished and often hilarious interviews with Marty himself, taped in preparation for the autobiography he never wrote.No one before or since has had a career quite like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.