Monday, July 7, 2008

Happy Birthday Marty Feldman! We Miss You!




You Say Igor and I Say Igor

His bulging eyes were from a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. He smoked up to six packs of cigarettes a day (!)He had his own television show on the BBC called Marty. His wife proposed to him. He died of a sudden heart attack. He directed and starred in The Last Remake of Beau Geste. He wrote some of the sketches for At Last The 1948 Show as well as Monty Python's Flying Circus.

He was Marty Feldman

Marty Feldman was co-author, with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor, of the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch, which was written for their television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show. It's a classic piece of scriptwriting.




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