Unequivocally...this man was the best. No equal. He stood on his principles, knuckled under no one, not even the United States. HE REFUSED TO NAME NAMES. God bless him. My one regret is that he did not act in the screen version of "Fiddler On The Roof". The world's loss.
Brilliant individual...I true delight to listen and watch Zero in this piece as in his others...You could see Dick Cavett genuinely enjoying his presence. Wish there were more of this quality and caliber now...ah the good old days!
so true. there is a truth to the character of Mostel. He is himself and only ever himself in any part he plays, but is it truly him or the character of him. There is no real distinction. Zero is humble to its extreme or not and eccentric to its most minimum or not. He is better than most and still fewer than one in a googolplex. He is Zero. = which by definition is the epitome of genius. so it goes like this: the representation of numbers varied from tribe to tribe and every nation of people. What could be done to rectify the misunderstanding between peoples and improve trade? The Western Arabs came up with a numerical system based on angles. 1 = one angle, 2 originally looked like a 'Z' = two angles, and so on up to nine, but this is where the genius comes in... up to now no one had a way to represent nothing. The Arabs drew a circle = no angles, Zero! Genius!
Perhaps the single greatest talk show hour in talk show history with perhaps the greatest performer ever. Nobody could do "Rich Man" better than, or equal to, Mostel's Tevye. It was a crime that he didn't do the movie version. I do wish that Cavett had gotten him to talk about what it was like working with Wilder and Mel Brooks in The Producers. Wilder and Mostel became great friends.
You know I really don't know what to say without sounding like a very old person, this may be old, and trite, but it is very true, they do not make actor/performers like Zero anymore, young people will never get the chance ( if they don't get directed to shows like this) to understand how great a talent can be, but maybe it was that generation of performer that created that kind of person, we really will never see the likes of them again and that saddens me and I think should sadden the world of entertainment.
Oh, Lord, I remember seeing this when it originally aired in 1971 and I've been looking for it on RUclips for ages. Thanks a ka-zillion for posting this true gem!
Cosmic individual. The last of our great artist-performers. A mammoth humorist and a genius actor. His personal insights as a socially conscious person and painter alone is marvelous. Peace.
@@martinhanley9524 anyone who could appear in public...wearing that hair....must have had no fear....but that hair doesnt make him a comic..let alone a genius
Vivid proof that fame is a fleeting thing. Zero was brilliant: wit, artist, performer...a force of nature. Watch the original version of "The Producers" with Gene Wilder. Your life will be richer for his contributions to it.
Marionettetc are you kidding? He was the first fiddler to fall off the roof. He set the precedent for all the rest of those tumbling tiles. And he's a distant cousin of mine!
Viewing this from Europe - 50 years on from the broadcast (the Cavett Show didn't air in Europe) - what a programme, what a presence Zero Mostel was - only really saw him in the Producers (in which he was brilliant) - greetings to all the New Yorkers (and Americans elsewhere in the States) who would have actually seen Zero Mostel on stage.
when I was in college in the ‘70s we considered him the greatest actor in America. Everybody would have tuned into this show knowing he was on. Three Tony awards.
To some nowadays, Zero's goofiness in this video may seem trite, but it was new and surprising to the 1971 audience. If Zero was still around, he could spontaneous come up with something, not thought of before, and make people laugh. I read somewhere, that when he was young, Zero could instantly come up with an original, spur of the moment performance on the sidewalk and make a living from tips, even in the worst of times. Sadly, he died too young. I think, that he died in the late 1970's.
So, I glanced away as Zero did the “crazy camera angles” bit, and when I looked back to the monitor, there was his intense closeup, Zeroing in on me! Haha! Had a good laugh.
It's only after seeing Zero's appearance on this show that I finally understood that when Zero played the role of Mr Bialystock he was more or less just being himself! So the larger than life character was actually played by a larger than life actor! I love it!!
I'm crying. I have no words. Zero Mostel was my model when I played Tevye in our high school's production of "Fiddler" over 40 years ago. I must have listened to that original cast recording a thousand times, trying to copy his every inflection and vocal acrobatics. "Rich Man" makes me want to get up and dance every time! To this day, whenever I attend a live theatre performance of "Fiddler" (be it either on Broadway or in a local high school production), I'm in tears throughout the whole show. And although I mean no disrespect to Topol, Hollywood did Mstel a great disservice by not casting him as Tevye in the movie version. May his beautiful soul rest in peace.
Some people have charisma. You just can't take your eyes off them. I'm the invisible type, but this guy is just mesmerizing. I'd could watch him read the phone book.
Zero is very talented. But, under no circumstances could I be around him.for longer than twenty minutes. The only performer that it would be more torturous to live with might be Robin Williams. Please give him...or me...a valium!!
I can’t believe Dick interrupted when Zero said, “I must tell you the BEST story of being an artist in those depression years.” All for the sake of a now non-existent commercial.
@@manofmanyinterests i think its called producing a show...where commercials pay for the production...maybe you think zero or any guest can just go on a tv show then or now and keep talking till they decide to walk off....to bad one of your many interests isnt intelligence
I remember Bobby Rosengarten's picture in the Slingerland Drum Catalog. but, I never heard him before. His fine stage drumming is especially evident in this Cavett episode. Zero was, great, of course.
Incredible performer. They don’t have this caliber anymore. Maybe Robin but he’s gone. You know they’re good when your face aches from smiling and laughing so much.
Extraordinary Talent His performances at all time's were absolutely Brilliant. But i adored him Working with Burgess Meredith in Waiting for GODOT. Sorry for arriving at this Presentation so Late.
Is there any chance, Archy, that you have access to a video recording of an appearance by Benny Goodman on the Dick Cavett Show on ABC-TV on October 20, 1972 (wherein Cavett had to tell Goodman that his fly was open)? Goodman also played "Sweet Georgia Brown" with Bobby Rosengarden and other musicians from the studio orchestra.
Wow! An hour with Zero Mostel is exhausting. But worth every single second. That he was CHEATED out of 10 years (or more) of his career by the cancel culture (blacklist) of the 50's is a truly vulgar thing. That, and his dying rather young (I think he was 62) cheated us out of years of his genius. If you haven't seen "The Front" starring Woody Allen and featuring Zero Mostel In a rather good cinematic telling of the Blacklist, I recommend getting thee to it.
Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered *not* being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.
@@provideme1000 Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered not being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.
@@kreek22 "Mostel joined the United States Army in 1943 but was discharged because of an unspecified physical disability. For the rest of the Second World War Mostel entertained American troops overseas. Mostel held left-wing political views and when the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began an investigation into the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry it was not long before he was called to give evidence. Mostel denied he was a member of the Communist Party but he refused to provide information about the political opinions of his friends. Mostel was now blacklisted and this made it very difficult for him to work in the entertainment industry. Around 320 artists, including Larry Adler, Stella Adler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Joseph Bromberg, Charlie Chaplin, Aaron Copland, Hanns Eisler, Edwin Rolfe, Carl Foreman, John Garfield, Howard Da Silva, Dashiell Hammett, E. Y. Harburg, Lillian Hellman, Burl Ives, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Philip Loeb, Joseph Losey, Anne Revere, Pete Seeger, Gale Sondergaard, Louis Untermeyer, Josh White, Clifford Odets, Michael Wilson, Paul Jarrico, Jeff Corey, John Randolph, Canada Lee, Orson Welles, Paul Green, Sidney Kingsley, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright and Abraham Polonsky, were also blacklisted. For the next few years Mostel found it difficult to find work in clubs and theatres and had to supplement his income by trying to sell his paintings. In 1958 a friend managed to get him the part of Leopold Bloom in the Off-Broadway production of Ulysses. He was a great success and won an Obie.
@@provideme1000 Lucky for him he chose to side with the communist mass murderers rather than the fascists--otherwise his blacklisting would never have ended. He was a traitor and a supporter of communism, mankind's worst ideology.
@@sugarjoe50 Speaking of Trump, he would have been a rather better host here than little Dick--much better sense of humor and deeper Jewish cultural connections. Indeed, it was his humor and Jewish connections that permitted him to provide us with the most entertaining of Presidencies.
@@kreek22 Speaking of "little dicks", Donnie Dorko has got the teeny-tiniest of them all, which perfectly compliments his single-cell protozoa excuse for a brain. Too bad we went from one dangerously incompetent boob to another, but that's how it's always been here in this screwed-up country; land of deceit, home of the greed.
His face is hardly ever still...so expressive.😊 When his face is occasionally at rest, he looks so different.... 21.20.... 41.55... handsome, even, in a funny sort of way ! 😊⭐🇺🇲💕🇬🇧😊⭐
I believe he was blacklisted and Fiddler brought him back - He was truly a funny funny man - and - rarely - a fine dramatic actor - this guy with Jack Palance - YOW
Z overcame the monstrous McCarthy blacklist performing Ulysses in Nighttown, off bway in 1958, he won an Obie award for Ulysses and that put him back in the spotlight, 6 years before Fiddler. Godot on TV in 61, it's on youtube, He won his first Tony for A Funny Thing... in 1962. P.S. he was unquestionably a great great talent, the best in my book, watching him from the audience, he could do no wrong, but he could be a major pain in the ass for SOME of the other actors working with him on stage. Unpleasant stories abound.
Crying 😂 wow I love a laugh but it’s rare that some one actually makes the tears flow from laughing so hard , first saw him in the Producers , GENIUS sexy intelligent man
I gave myself 60 seconds to watch this. Then a voice said, go, you have 58 seconds.. you have 48 seconds left, hurry hurry.. 28 seconds you're running out of time, tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock..
Unequivocally...this man was the best. No equal. He stood on his principles, knuckled under no one, not even the United States.
HE REFUSED TO NAME NAMES. God bless him.
My one regret is that he did not act in the screen version of "Fiddler On The Roof". The world's loss.
Brilliant individual...I true delight to listen and watch Zero in this piece as in his others...You could see Dick Cavett genuinely enjoying his presence. Wish there were more of this quality and caliber now...ah the good old days!
so true. there is a truth to the character of Mostel. He is himself and only ever himself in any part he plays, but is it truly him or the character of him. There is no real distinction. Zero is humble to its extreme or not and eccentric to its most minimum or not. He is better than most and still fewer than one in a googolplex. He is Zero. = which by definition is the epitome of genius.
so it goes like this: the representation of numbers varied from tribe to tribe and every nation of people. What could be done to rectify the misunderstanding between peoples and improve trade? The Western Arabs came up with a numerical system based on angles. 1 = one angle, 2 originally looked like a 'Z' = two angles, and so on up to nine, but this is where the genius comes in... up to now no one had a way to represent nothing. The Arabs drew a circle = no angles, Zero!
Genius!
Thank God for youtube so we can pretend we will live in this beautiful era.
Yea, while simultaneously not having to endure NAM! Just every other WAR😂
Perhaps the single greatest talk show hour in talk show history with perhaps the greatest performer ever. Nobody could do "Rich Man" better than, or equal to, Mostel's Tevye. It was a crime that he didn't do the movie version. I do wish that Cavett had gotten him to talk about what it was like working with Wilder and Mel Brooks in The Producers. Wilder and Mostel became great friends.
You know I really don't know what to say without sounding like a very old person, this may be old, and trite, but it is very true, they do not make actor/performers like Zero anymore, young people will never get the chance ( if they don't get directed to shows like this) to understand how great a talent can be, but maybe it was that generation of performer that created that kind of person, we really will never see the likes of them again and that saddens me and I think should sadden the world of entertainment.
MAGOO you know what you remind me of? Every time I masturbate, out comes magoo.
@@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou your name makes your reply even funnier
You got that right!!!! I was so lucky to see Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof in 1977 right before he died. I witnessed absolute genuis!!!!!!
Oh, Lord, I remember seeing this when it originally aired in 1971 and I've been looking for it on RUclips for ages. Thanks a ka-zillion for posting this true gem!
When I was 14 (1990) I taped “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum” off PBS. Zero Mostel became one of my favorite comedic actors that day
Healing from cardiac disease and a back injury. Zero makes it all OK. Thank you Zero and Mr Cavett
Cosmic individual. The last of our great artist-performers. A mammoth humorist and a genius actor. His personal insights as a socially conscious person and painter alone is marvelous. Peace.
He was one of the greatest actors no one knows of today. Too bad...for them.
I'm told this man had ZERO fear. No pun intended. Nobody had dominion over him. God love him💛
Comic genius
@@martinhanley9524 anyone who could appear in public...wearing that hair....must have had no fear....but that hair doesnt make him a comic..let alone a genius
Thanks for downloading this...it was a treat to hear Zero's voice again.
I just saw "The Producers" on the big screen a couple of weeks ago.
God damn, zero is hilarious. Never heard of him before today
Vivid proof that fame is a fleeting thing. Zero was brilliant: wit, artist, performer...a force of nature. Watch the original version of "The Producers" with Gene Wilder. Your life will be richer for his contributions to it.
Marionettetc are you kidding? He was the first fiddler to fall off the roof. He set the precedent for all the rest of those tumbling tiles. And he's a distant cousin of mine!
you mean "uploading"...
Just a great human being. Thank`s Zero for standing up. Often overlooked. Boy do we need you now.
Oh my God he was so talented! Great interview🖤
Viewing this from Europe - 50 years on from the broadcast (the Cavett Show didn't air in Europe) - what a programme, what a presence Zero Mostel was - only really saw him in the Producers (in which he was brilliant) - greetings to all the New Yorkers (and Americans elsewhere in the States) who would have actually seen Zero Mostel on stage.
The Front is also brilliant
I was in tears the whole hour. Brilliant man.
The wonderful Zero. The original and best Max Bialystock.
He is max😁
@@henrywhenryw812 definitely the greatest!
SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!
🥰
This was perhaps the greatest interview I have ever seen! They, quite frankly, do not make them like this anymore.
Zero was a one-man Broadway production.
And what's wrong with that? He took up most of the stage anyway.
Comic genius as was Gene Wilder, Don Adams and the maestro Mel Brooks
This is Broadway gold! This man is so talented!
when I was in college in the ‘70s we considered him the greatest actor in America. Everybody would have tuned into this show knowing he was on. Three Tony awards.
this is a legend and i enjoyed every second of his chat with Dick and performance. a true original.
I read a book on Mostel's life - a fascinating, complex, super talented man
Sad that six years after this appearance he passed away.
I knew Dick Cavett was responsible. This is better than DNA evidence.
Just...WOW! This is so amazing on so many levels.
Zero has always been a thespian hero of mine.
Zero drained the green room dry before this gig...
Zero Mosetel's other shining hour, after The Producers is Martin Ritt's The Front with Woody Allen.
Dave Wray ahhhhh 😀 thanks for the film tip
That movie was just on tonight. I came here after watching it... Because of watching it!
Such a touching performance by Zero.
Zero Mostel - THE BEST! 😃
To some nowadays, Zero's goofiness in this video may seem trite, but it was new and surprising to the 1971 audience. If Zero was still around, he could spontaneous come up with something, not thought of before, and make people laugh. I read somewhere, that when he was young, Zero could instantly come up with an original, spur of the moment performance on the sidewalk and make a living from tips, even in the worst of times.
Sadly, he died too young. I think, that he died in the late 1970's.
Zero was a brilliant performer!
What a remarkable individual, a true original
I can imagine, I don’t know where he got the energy from
i love zero's Caesar hair...the extreme comb-over the a tail in back...
The original mullet!
@Texas Chainsaw Jesus
ah i see...TRUMP is HITLER...very "original"...
Texas Chainsaw Jesus 😂🤣
@@veganvocalist4782 That sounds like a great name for a mediocre band.
A classic interview!
So, I glanced away as Zero did the “crazy camera angles” bit, and when I looked back to the monitor, there was his intense closeup, Zeroing in on me! Haha! Had a good laugh.
zero was great as the voice of 'kehaar' in watership down back in 1978.
Very underrated film, which I love.
It's only after seeing Zero's appearance on this show that I finally understood that when Zero played the role of Mr Bialystock he was more or less just being himself! So the larger than life character was actually played by a larger than life actor! I love it!!
Zero was fantastic -
The 😀 Best 😆 Spontaneous 🤣 Comedian 🤓 Ever 👌🏻
this man was way ahead of his time and would have throven in the internet age
I'm crying. I have no words. Zero Mostel was my model when I played Tevye in our high school's production of "Fiddler" over 40 years ago. I must have listened to that original cast recording a thousand times, trying to copy his every inflection and vocal acrobatics. "Rich Man" makes me want to get up and dance every time! To this day, whenever I attend a live theatre performance of "Fiddler" (be it either on Broadway or in a local high school production), I'm in tears throughout the whole show. And although I mean no disrespect to Topol, Hollywood did Mstel a great disservice by not casting him as Tevye in the movie version. May his beautiful soul rest in peace.
31.21 :
"Impression of Queen Victoria":
L.o.l ! 😊⭐😊
He was so funny,
ideas flowing, thick and fast...⭐😊⭐
🇬🇧💕🇺🇲⭐😊⭐
Zero = Genius!
Some people have charisma. You just can't take your eyes off them. I'm the invisible type, but this guy is just mesmerizing. I'd could watch him read the phone book.
Zero is very talented.
But, under no circumstances could I be around him.for longer than twenty minutes.
The only performer that it would be more torturous to live with might be Robin Williams.
Please give him...or me...a valium!!
Mostel was great. Never gave anyone up. Unlike Ronald Regan.
I have an LP of him narrating The Grinch. I was about 6 when I got it, I'm 53 now. Today, I saw his face for the first time
He did "Hot Rock" right around this time. Very funny movie, and Zero was hilarious in it.
Wish we had forces of nature like Zero Mostel in Finland - then and now😊
Such a sensitive, talented man, such good soul.
I can’t believe Dick interrupted when Zero said, “I must tell you the BEST story of being an artist in those depression years.” All for the sake of a now non-existent commercial.
Zero had perfection. Cavett none.
@@manofmanyinterests i think its called producing a show...where commercials pay for the production...maybe you think zero or any guest can just go on a tv show then or now and keep talking till they decide to walk off....to bad one of your many interests isnt intelligence
We all know you wanted to plant a big ol' wet kiss on his bottom.
I remember Bobby Rosengarten's picture in the Slingerland Drum Catalog. but, I never heard him before. His fine stage drumming is especially evident in this Cavett episode. Zero was, great, of course.
Yes,and his work on the obstetrician sketch was fabulous !
If ever a performer could be called a genius, that performer would be Zero Mostel!
...an example of Mostel's genius can be seen in the above brilliant performance of a monologue from Ulysses- ( about 56:30 to 58:20...)
Came here fot Don Rickles..and discovered this wonderful artist!!
Brilliant funny man who owns anyone's show!
He was absolutely Hysterical
He didn’t have to wear a kippah (yarmulke)…. Thé toupee comb-over was an adequate substitute!
Incredible performer. They don’t have this caliber anymore. Maybe Robin but he’s gone. You know they’re good when your face aches from smiling and laughing so much.
And Johnathan Winters
What a Beautiful Mind he was , and seems to have been a kind and hurt human
He is rich in talent
Extraordinary Talent
His performances at all time's were absolutely Brilliant.
But i adored him Working with Burgess Meredith in Waiting for GODOT.
Sorry for arriving at this Presentation so Late.
Saw him in fiddler when I was a young teen. Unreal. Mesmerized
Man I would have loved to see Zero and Robin Williams do something together.
Does burn in hell count?
@@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou Pray tell why?
He looks just loaded. Glassy eye'd.
Un genio, lo recuerdo en la pelicula LOS PRODUCTORES
Is there any chance, Archy, that you have access to a video recording of an appearance by Benny Goodman on the Dick Cavett Show on ABC-TV on October 20, 1972 (wherein Cavett had to tell Goodman that his fly was open)? Goodman also played "Sweet Georgia Brown" with Bobby Rosengarden and other musicians from the studio orchestra.
What a gem to find.....What talent.
Thank you for this amazing upload! I really would like to have a chat with those down thumbers!!!
Original. Doesn't exist today.
What genius. Just an utter genius.
Wow! An hour with Zero Mostel is exhausting. But worth every single second.
That he was CHEATED out of 10 years (or more) of his career by the cancel culture (blacklist) of the 50's is a truly vulgar thing.
That, and his dying rather young (I think he was 62) cheated us out of years of his genius.
If you haven't seen "The Front" starring Woody Allen and featuring Zero Mostel In a rather good cinematic telling of the Blacklist, I recommend getting thee to it.
Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered *not* being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.
@@kreek22 no
@@provideme1000
Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered not being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.
@@kreek22 "Mostel joined the United States Army in 1943 but was discharged because of an unspecified physical disability. For the rest of the Second World War Mostel entertained American troops overseas.
Mostel held left-wing political views and when the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began an investigation into the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry it was not long before he was called to give evidence. Mostel denied he was a member of the Communist Party but he refused to provide information about the political opinions of his friends.
Mostel was now blacklisted and this made it very difficult for him to work in the entertainment industry. Around 320 artists, including Larry Adler, Stella Adler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Joseph Bromberg, Charlie Chaplin, Aaron Copland, Hanns Eisler, Edwin Rolfe, Carl Foreman, John Garfield, Howard Da Silva, Dashiell Hammett, E. Y. Harburg, Lillian Hellman, Burl Ives, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Philip Loeb, Joseph Losey, Anne Revere, Pete Seeger, Gale Sondergaard, Louis Untermeyer, Josh White, Clifford Odets, Michael Wilson, Paul Jarrico, Jeff Corey, John Randolph, Canada Lee, Orson Welles, Paul Green, Sidney Kingsley, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright and Abraham Polonsky, were also blacklisted.
For the next few years Mostel found it difficult to find work in clubs and theatres and had to supplement his income by trying to sell his paintings. In 1958 a friend managed to get him the part of Leopold Bloom in the Off-Broadway production of Ulysses. He was a great success and won an Obie.
@@provideme1000 Lucky for him he chose to side with the communist mass murderers rather than the fascists--otherwise his blacklisting would never have ended. He was a traitor and a supporter of communism, mankind's worst ideology.
I love you zero mostel+ by the way his comb-over had a comb over LOL
Trump's comb-over actually seems quite stylish compared to Mostel.
@@sugarjoe50 Speaking of Trump, he would have been a rather better host here than little Dick--much better sense of humor and deeper Jewish cultural connections. Indeed, it was his humor and Jewish connections that permitted him to provide us with the most entertaining of Presidencies.
@@kreek22 Speaking of "little dicks", Donnie Dorko has got the teeny-tiniest of them all, which perfectly compliments his single-cell protozoa excuse for a brain. Too bad we went from one dangerously incompetent boob to another, but that's how it's always been here in this screwed-up country; land of deceit, home of the greed.
Funny talented brilliant. The best and only Max Bialystok.
Thrilling and spectacular performance
Dick Cavett lives.
Amazing XO.
I would of loved to meet Zero. He was such a treasure to Broadway with all of his great roles.
Lovely Zero.
31:10 Now we know where Jack Black gets that face from, I guess.
Jack Black the heir apparent to tevye
Very Funny 😄 Cavett left totally out of control 🙈 hhhhhhhh 🦋 Rest in Peace Zero
wow he is loved and massively funny with it
An amazing individual 😊
What a guy!!
Cavett was the highest IQ talk show host ever.
Who fell for 8:34 ?!
90loneeagle I almost fell for that, but luckily I landed on my face.
A tour de force of funny energy.
Jackie Gleason with a comb over
Gleason came to mind with me as well.
Gleason *did* have a comb over.
His face is hardly ever still...so expressive.😊
When his face is occasionally
at rest, he looks so different....
21.20....
41.55...
handsome, even,
in a funny sort of way !
😊⭐🇺🇲💕🇬🇧😊⭐
What a character..
Oh, how I love Zero Mostel. What a perfect talent.
I believe he was blacklisted and Fiddler brought him back - He was truly a funny funny man - and - rarely - a fine dramatic actor - this guy with Jack Palance - YOW
Z overcame the monstrous McCarthy blacklist performing Ulysses in Nighttown, off bway in 1958, he won an Obie award for Ulysses and that put him back in the spotlight, 6 years before Fiddler. Godot on TV in 61, it's on youtube, He won his first Tony for A Funny Thing... in 1962. P.S. he was unquestionably a great great talent, the best in my book, watching him from the audience, he could do no wrong, but he could be a major pain in the ass for SOME of the other actors working with him on stage. Unpleasant stories abound.
By Christ, imagine Zero and Behan together!!!
What's up that that hair style Zero's sporting? Combed forward, with a little pony tail in back.
I'm a damned interesting man!
Crying 😂 wow I love a laugh but it’s rare that some one actually makes the tears flow from laughing so hard , first saw him in the Producers , GENIUS sexy intelligent man
His talent abounded in declinations...
Whipped cream, then ashes. Hazards, then feathers. An eyeball in the mud, a serenade to the stars.
Amazing. How much do you decide what a bomb is worth?
Really enjoyed Zero once he settled down and got the jokes out of his system.😊
I don't know if I can last that long. All the yucking it up is unbearable.
For a great acting performance see Zero in "The Front" a film about the blacklist made in 1976.
Zero actually was in fact blacklisted in the 50s.
@@sugarjoe50 No, sir, he was such a consummate communist that he was the reason the blacklist had to be invented--in the 40s.
Talk about chewing the scenery.
Mostel worked it
I gave myself 60 seconds to watch this. Then a voice said, go, you have 58 seconds.. you have 48 seconds left, hurry hurry.. 28 seconds you're running out of time, tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock..