Zero Mostel

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1915 age 0

   Born

2. 1950 age 35

   CreditPanic in the Streets

3. 1966 age 51

   CreditA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

4. 1967 age 52

   CreditThe Producers

5. 1976 age 61

   CreditThe Front

6. 1977 age 62

   Died

• SMSam McMurray1 title
• JPJon Pertwee1 title
• RPRicardo Palacios1 title
• RTRenée Taylor1 title
• DADanny Aiello1 title
• MCMichael Chapman1 title
• MHMichael Hordern1 title
• BGBarbara Bel Geddes1 title
• JPJack Palance1 title
• WAWoody Allen1 title

• Children

  • JMJosh Mostel

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Graphic House, New YorkPublic domain

• Mostel: If I appeared there, what if I did an imitation of a butterfly at rest? There is no crime in making anybody laugh. I don't care if you laugh at me.<br>Congressman Jackson: If your interpretation of a butterfly at rest brought any money into the coffers of the Communist Party, you contributed directly to the propaganda effort of the Communist Party.<br>Mostel: Suppose I had the urge to do the butterfly at rest somewhere?<br>Congressman Doyle: Yes, but please, when you have the urge, don't have such an urge to put the butterfly at rest by putting some money in the Communist Party coffers as a result of that urge to put a butterfly at rest.

  Zero Mostel, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There's a kind of silliness in the theater about what one contributes to a show. The producer obviously contributes the money... but must the actor contribute nothing at all? I’m not a modest fellow about those things. I contribute a great deal. And they always manage to hang you for having an interpretation. Isn’t [the theater] where your imagination should flower? Why must it always be dull as shit?

  Zero Mostel, CC BY-SA 4.0