Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend Book

Mike Myers thinks he was "a genius" while John Cleese regards him as "a true cultural icon". 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. 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 fi rst ever biography. 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including his sister Pamela Tim Brooke-Taylor Michael Palin and Terry Jones and also draws from extensive previously unpublished and often hilarious interviews with Marty himself taped in preparation for the autobiography he never wrote.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. Beginning in the dying days of variety theatre he went from the behind the scenes scriptwriting triumphs of Round the Horne and The Frost Report to onscreen stardom in At Last the 1948 Show and his own hit series Marty. That led to transatlantic success his work with Mel Brooks and a five-picture deal to write and direct his own movies.From his youth as a tramp on the streets of London to the height of his fame in America - where he encountered everyone from Orson Welles to Kermit the Frog before his Hollywood dream became a nightmare - this is the fascinating story of a key figure in the history of comedy fully told for the first time.Read More