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Marty Feldman
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Director, Screenwriter, Actor Born: July 8, 1933 in London, England, UK Death: December 2, 1982 in Mexico City, Mexico Biography:Wild-haired, pop-eyed British comedian "Marty Feldman" dropped out of school at 15 in hopes of becoming a jazz trumpeter. Instead he found steady work as a radio comedy writer, first for the popular BBC weekly "Educating Archie" (which in the tradition of "Edgar Bergen" starred a ventriloquist and his dummy), and most famously for "Kenneth Horne"'s Round the Horne, which ran from 1965 to 1969. Round the Horne would become something of a cult favorite when it was rebroadcast on American public radio in the 1970s to capitalize on "Feldman"'s latter-day fame. Toiling away on many of Britain's best satirical TV and radio series of the 1960s, "Feldman" avoided the cameras, feeling that he was a bit too grotesque-looking for public consumption. Once he did start acting as well as writing, the public loved him and begged for more. His biggest British TV break was "The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine", in which... Full Biography
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