Marty Feldman

¹Kettering Magazine (http://www.bodnotbod.org.uk/kettering) Issue #2. They have one son, Jason Gould. Feldman was an active member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was married to Barbra Streisand from 1963 to 1971. The songs were written, not by him, but by Dennis King, John Junkin and Bill Solly (a writer for Max Bygraves and The Two Ronnies).¹. He also co-starred in the popular "caper" film Ocean's 11 (2001) and its sequel Ocean's 12 (2004). He also released one long playing record called I Feel A Song Going Off (1969), re-released as The Crazy World of Marty Feldman. Gould recieved critical praise for his role as an aging mobster in Warren Beatty's 1991 film Bugsy.

He directed and starred in The Last Remake of Beau Geste and died from a heart attack in Mexico filming his last performance in the film Yellowbeard. He appeared in an episode of the popular television series Touched By An Angel where he played a concentration camp survivor. Feldman appeared in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes's Smarter Brother and several Mel Brooks films, including Silent Movie and Young Frankenstein. His career slowed down after a series of critical and commercial flops in the mid to late 70's, but he has remained steadily employed in supporting and character roles in television and movies, including a recurring guest role on Friends. He is remembered for his role as the hunchback Igor in Young Frankenstein - in which, as usual, many of his lines were improvised. Also in 1980, Gould filmed two movies for Walt Disney studios The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark and The Devil And Max Devlin, in this he co-starred with Bill Cosby. His performances on American television included The Dean Martin Show and Marty Feldman's Comedy Machine. He hosted Saturday Night Live six times through the 1980 season premiere, although he has not done so since (in the late 80's he had a cameo role in a sketch about a secret club for people who had hosted 5 or more times).

Following his success on At Last the 1948 Show, Feldman had a memorable series of his own shows on the BBC, called It's Marty. Gould joined such distinguished company as Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum when he played legendary shamus Phillip Marlowe in the 1973 film The Long Goodbye. The sketch was revived as part of the Monty Python stage show repertoire (without Feldman). Other notable film roles include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One and, The Lady Vanishes. In one memorable sketch, first broadcast on March 1, 1967, Feldman harassed a patient shop assistant (John Cleese) for a series of fictitious books, finally achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying. Time magazine put him on its cover in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a "star for an uptight age.". The television sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show featured Feldman's first screen performances. Elliott Gould (born August 29, 1938), born Elliott Goldstein, was one of the most prominent American film actors in the early '70s, best known for playing Trapper John in the satirical 1970 film M*A*S*H.

He was also a writer on The Frost Report with several future Pythons. For British television they wrote sitcoms The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge, and most notably the ground-breaking BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams. Like Spike Milligan, Feldman started his show-business career as a trumpet player, but soon turned to comedy. He formed a flourishing writing partnership with Barry Took in 1954. English writer, comedian and film and television actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition.

Marty Feldman (July 8, 1933 - December 2, 1982).