Samuel joel zero mostel was an american actor singer and comedian of stage and screen best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as tevye on stage in fiddler on the roof pseudolus on stage and on screen in a funny thing happened on the way to the forum and max bialystock in the original film version of mel brooks the producers.
Mostel fiddler on the roof.
It tells the story of tevye a poor jewish milkman in the tiny russian village of anatevka.
Fiddler on the roof is a 1971 american epic musical comedy drama film produced and directed by norman jewison.
He was blacklisted during the 1950s and his testimony b.
Yet he projected a talmudic thoughtfulness and that served him in great stead in his most famous part tevye in fiddler on the roof mostel an extremely well read man who continued his.
Prologue tradition from fiddler on the roof with zero mostel julia migenes and cast.
Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905.
Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by.
It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem.
Mostel was a student of don richardson and he used an acting technique based on muscle memory.
Fiddler on the roof is the stage to screen adaptation of the famous musical.
This role is played by topol who played the character onstage in the london production of fiddler.