Who was the comic script-writing partner of Marty Feldman?
"for the show by the actor Kenneth Horne. A compilation of surviving sketches from the series has been released on DVD, with the title ""The Best of Marty Feldman"". Marty (TV series) Marty is a British television sketch comedy series, with Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin, Roland MacLeod, Mary Miller and Peter Pocock which was made in 1968. There was a second series made in 1969, re-titled ""It's Marty"". In total, 12 episodes were produced. The writers were John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin, Marty Feldman, Barry Took, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Philip Jenkinson, Donald Webster, Peter Dickinson, Terry"
"a comedy starring Eddie Murphy. Feldman then had his directing debut adapting his script ""Real Men"" (1987) and produced ""Dead Again"" (1991), which he also developed the story with Scott Frank. In 1995 Feldman wrote and co-produced ""Species"", based on a script idea he had in 1985. He also penned a comic book adaptation of the film by Dark Horse Comics and helped Yvonne Navarro write the film's novelization. His latest screenwriter credit is ""Virus"" (1999), which Feldman contributed some drafts after the ones made by Chuck Pfarrer, author of the original comic. Feldman has also been part of the"
"The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine is a 1971 comedy-variety sketch show starring British comedian Marty Feldman. Co-produced by ATV in the UK and ABC TV in the United States, it was recorded at ATV's Elstree Studios. It features opening and closing credits animated by Terry Gilliam, as well as featuring guest appearances by Spike Milligan, John Junkin and Frances de la Tour. It also featured sketches written by Barry Levinson and Larry Gelbart. Long unavailable, the complete series was to be released on DVD in the UK through Network on 6 June 2016. However, the"
"Marty Feldman Martin Alan ""Marty"" Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedy writer, and comedian, known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. He starred in several British television comedy series, including ""At Last the 1948 Show"" and ""Marty"", the latter of which won two BAFTA awards. He was the first Saturn Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""Young Frankenstein"". Feldman was born on 8 July 1934 in the East End of London, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev, Ukraine, Cecilia (née Crook) and Myer Feldman, a gown manufacturer. He recalled"
"release has been postponed indefinitely for unspecified reasons. The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine is a 1971 comedy-variety sketch show starring British comedian Marty Feldman. Co-produced by ATV in the UK and ABC TV in the United States, it was recorded at ATV's Elstree Studios. It features opening and closing credits animated by Terry Gilliam, as well as featuring guest appearances by Spike Milligan, John Junkin and Frances de la Tour. It also featured sketches written by Barry Levinson and Larry Gelbart. Long unavailable, the complete series was to be released on DVD in the UK"
"of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products."" He is buried in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery near his idol, Buster Keaton, in the Garden of Heritage. Marty Feldman Martin Alan ""Marty"" Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedy writer, and comedian, known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. He starred in several British television comedy series, including ""At Last the 1948 Show"" and ""Marty"", the latter of which won two BAFTA awards. He was the first Saturn Award winner for Best Supporting"
"as his ""guest."" Spencer was a huge fan of Feldman's and knew the comedian's writing credits for British television, a rarity, as most Americans were not well versed in Feldman's versatility, and the normally private Feldman recognized Spencer as a kindred spirit. Feldman had also begun writing at the young age of fifteen and gave Spencer early guidance. Marty Feldman later died of a heart attack while making the film ""Yellowbeard"" and on May 16, 1984 Alan Spencer lost another friend: the legendary and offbeat comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman once invited Spencer over to his home and subjected him to"
"a woman to a homeless shelter that is located between streets named Gardner and Fox. Gardner Fox Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Gardner was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories. Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed"
"Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman (; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel ""Maus"". His work as co-editor on the comics magazines ""Arcade"" and ""Raw"" has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for ""The New Yorker"". He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. Spiegelman began his career with the Topps bubblegum card company in the mid-1960s, which was his main financial support for two decades; there he co-created parodic"
"he had finished by the time Spielberg was filming ""Hook"". Crichton noted that because the book was ""fairly long"" his script had about 10 to 20 percent of the novel's content; scenes were dropped for budgetary and practical reasons, and the violence was toned down. Malia Scotch Marmo began a script rewrite in October 1991 over a five-month period, merging Ian Malcolm with Alan Grant. Spielberg wanted another writer to rework the script, so Universal president Casey Silver recommended David Koepp, co-writer of ""Death Becomes Her"". Koepp started afresh from Marmo's draft, and used Spielberg's idea of a cartoon shown"
"""The Art of Spiegelman"", directed by Clara Kuperberg and Joelle Oosterlinck and mainly featuring interviews with Spiegelman and those around him. Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman (; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel ""Maus"". His work as co-editor on the comics magazines ""Arcade"" and ""Raw"" has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for ""The New Yorker"". He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. Spiegelman began his career with"
"on ""For Amusement Only"" and ""For Adults Only"". In terms of his comedy writing, Took's best work was written in collaboration with Marty Feldman, whom he first met in 1954. The two men wrote for several television shows in the 1950s and '60s, including ""The Army Game"" and its spin-off ""Bootsie and Snudge"". He co-wrote ""Beyond Our Ken"" for two series (1958–59) with Eric Merriman for BBC Radio before leaving after a disagreement with his fellow writer. With Marty Feldman he wrote most episodes of ""Round the Horne""; the intermittent partnership between them continued until 1974. In the late 1960s"
"writing plots for animated short films. Brightman was replaced by Bob Karp, who would serve as Taliaferro's main creative partner for the rest of his career. The inkers for the comic strip included Karl Karpe, Dick Moores, George Waiss, and Bill Wright. Taliaferro also relied on a number of assistant artists, including Ellis Eringer, Frank Grundeen, Al Hubbard, and Kay Wright. Taliaferro retired from the daily comic strip on October 10, 1967. He kept working on the Sunday version of the strip until his death in February, 1969. Since 1967, Taliaferro's duties on the comic strip had mostly been handled"
"Gardner Fox Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Gardner was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories. Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America and later recreated the team"
"Al Feldstein Albert Bernard Feldstein (; October 24, 1925 – April 29, 2014) was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine ""Mad"". After retiring from ""Mad"", Feldstein concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife. Al Feldstein was born October 24, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish household. He is the son of Max, who made dental molds, and Beatrice Feldstein. After winning an award in the 1939 New York World's Fair poster contest, he decided on a career in"
"Chapman began writing on ""The Frost Report"". The writing staff chosen for ""The Frost Report"" consisted of a number of writers and performers who would go on to make names for themselves in comedy. They included co-performers from ""I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again"" and future Goodies Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor, and also Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Python members Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. While working on ""The Frost Report"", the future Pythons developed the writing styles that would make their collaboration significant. Cleese's and Chapman's sketches"
"Kurtzman focused on ""Mad"". During the early 1950s, Kurtzman became one of the writers for Dan Barry's relaunched ""Flash Gordon"" daily comic strip. He scripted two sequences for the strip, with portions pencilled by Frank Frazetta. The strip soon became one of ""Mad""s targets in ""Flesh Garden!"", drawn by Wood, who had earlier assisted Barry on the ""Flash Gordon"" strip. In 1954, Kurtzman dreamed up a full-color, 100-page adaptation of Dickens' ""A Christmas Carol"" called ""Marley's Ghost"", and proposed the project to Simon & Schuster and other publishers. The proposal included seven finished pages, as well as a page redone"
"in his next project. Wilder began writing ""Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother"" as production was wrapping on ""Young Frankenstein"". On the set of ""Frankenstein"", Mel Brooks warned Wilder that now that he was writing movies, he would eventually move to directing movies to protect his scripts. After ""Smarter Brother"", Wilder would go on to write, direct and star in three more features over the next ten years (""The World's Greatest Lover"" in 1977, ""The Woman in Red"" in 1984, and ""Haunted Honeymoon"" in 1986). Wilder's screenplay reveals a deep knowledge of Conan Doyle's characters as Marty Feldman's character, Sgt. Orville Stanley"
"budget. After ""Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)"", Wilder began working on a script he called ""Young Frankenstein"". After he wrote a two-page scenario, he called Mel Brooks, who told him that it seemed like a ""cute"" idea, but showed little interest. A few months later, Wilder received a call from his agent, Mike Medavoy, who asked if he had anything where he could include Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman, his two new clients. Having just seen Feldman on television, Wilder was inspired to write a scene that takes place at Transylvania Station,"
"the character's co-creator. While Flessel drew the ""Sandman"" cover of ""Adventure Comics"" #40, generally considered the character's first appearance, the character was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Bert Christman. When DC Comics editor Vin Sullivan left the company in 1940 to work for Columbia Comics, Flessel, Fox and others freelanced for his ""Big Shot Comics"". In 1943, when Sullivan formed his own comic book publishing company, Magazine Enterprises, Flessel signed on as associate editor. Among its other publications, the firm produced at least three issues of the highly violent, wartime propaganda comic ""The United States Marines"", which presented"
"work on the newly inaugurated ""Mickey Mouse"" color Sunday strip which, in addition to the daily, he continued through mid-1938. Gottfredson headed the comics department at Disney 1930–1946, and was replaced by Frank Reilly. Originally, Gottfredson wrote and drew the ""Mickey Mouse"" strip alone, but in 1932 he pulled back to plotting the stories and doing the penciling, while the dialogue was mostly done by other hands. Scripts were written by Ted Osborne (1934–49), Merrill De Maris (1934–42), Bob Karp, Dick Shaw (1942–43), Bill Walsh (1943–64), Roy Williams (1964) and Del Connell (1968–82). Even so, Gottfredson always worked closely with"
"collaborated in writing lyrics for an album by Barry Booth called Diversions. They were also in the team of writers working for ""The Frost Report"", whose other members included Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Monty Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle. Although the members of Monty Python had already encountered each other over the years, ""The Frost Report"" was the first time all the British members of Monty Python (its sixth member, Terry Gilliam, was at that time an American citizen) worked together. During the run of ""The"
"Woody Gelman Woodrow Gelman (1915 – February 9, 1978), better known as Woody Gelman, was a publisher, cartoonist, novelist and an artist-writer for both animation and comic books. As the publisher of Nostalgia Press, he pioneered the reprinting of vintage comic strips in quality hardcovers and trade paperbacks. As an editor and art director for two-and-a-half decades at Topps Chewing Gum, he introduced many innovations in trading cards and humor products. Gelman was the co-creator of Popsicle Pete and the co-creator of Bazooka Joe for Topps. He was also a co-creator of ""Mars Attacks"", adapted into the 1996 movie by"
"Allen Bert Christman Allen Bert Christman (May 31, 1915 – January 23, 1942), known professionally as Bert Christman, was an American cartoonist and naval aviator. He is best known as artist of the newspaper comic strip ""Scorchy Smith"", about a pilot-adventurer in the inter-war years. He was also credited with co-creating the original, Wesley Dodds version of the DC Comics character the Sandman. Artist Bert Christman and writer Gardner Fox are generally credited as co-creating the original, Wesley Dodd version of the DC Comics character the Sandman. While the character's first appearance is usually given as ""Adventure Comics"" #40 (cover-dated"
"Brothers Gang War"" with Gerry Conway and ""The Child Within"", written by J. M. DeMatteis, featuring the death of longtime Spider-Man supporting character Harry Osborn in #200 (May 1993). In a 2002 interview, DeMatteis said, ""I really loved the two years on ""Spectacular Spider-Man"" that I wrote with Sal Buscema drawing. Talk about underrated! Sal is one of the best storytellers and a wonderful collaborator. I loved that run."" Buscema worked for rival DC Comics, including penciling Batman, Superman, and Superboy stories, and inking the Creeper, Wonder Woman, and other characters' stories in 1997–1999. He recalled, ""[T]he short time I"
"Gilbert Shelton Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters ""The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"", ""Fat Freddy's Cat"", and ""Wonder Wart-Hog"". Shelton was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston. He attended Washington and Lee University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his bachelor's degree in the social sciences in 1961. His early cartoons were published in the University of Texas' humor magazine ""The Texas Ranger"". Directly after"
"William Conselman William Marien Conselman (July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1940) was an American screenwriter who also wrote newspaper comic strips under his Bill Conselman byline and sometimes under the pseudonym Frank Smiley. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Conselman arrived on the West Coast in 1920 and joined the staff of the ""Los Angeles Times"" as the assistant city editor. His play ""And Then What"", staged by the San Diego Players, opened November 6, 1923 at Balboa Park's Yorick Theater. Between 1921 and 1940, he was a screenwriter on 57 films. By 1936, he had an annual income of"
"Martin Kellerman Martin Kellerman (born 1973, Växjö) is a Swedish cartoonist, known for the comic strip ""Rocky"". Kellerman was influenced by American and Swedish underground cartoonists such as Peter Bagge, Max Andersson, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Joe Matt and Mats Jonsson. Kellerman states that his work resembles ""a mixture between really dark comics and commercial stuff like ""MAD"". That's why to [underground cartoonists] I'm considered a commercial artist."" After his girlfriend broke up with him and he was fired from his job as a cartoonist for a pornographic magazine, he created the autobiographical funny animal comic strip ""Rocky"", about a"
"to Sloan that he half expected Frankie Howerd to suddenly appear round the corner. Sloan had replied 'Why not?', and the idea took root. Talbot Rothwell was invited to write a script and the designer Sally Hulke visited Pompeii with a sketch book and camera to ensure realism and authenticity. A slight variation of this is related by Bill Cotton who, in a June 2000 interview with author Graham McCann, said the idea originated with Mills, then the BBC's Head of Comedy, after seeing Frankie Howerd in that same play. There were concerns in the Corporation's copyright department that the"
"Marc Hempel Marc Hempel (born May 25, 1957) is an American cartoonist/comics artist best known for his work on ""The Sandman"" with Neil Gaiman. Writer and artist Marc Hempel grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and now lives in Baltimore. He received a B.F.A. in Painting from Northern Illinois University in 1980. He and Mark Wheatley co-created the titles ""Breathtaker"" and ""Mars"". In 1994–1995, he collaborated with Neil Gaiman on the climactic story arc """" in ""The Sandman"". Hempel's own creations ""Gregory"" and ""Tug & Buster"" were nominated for several industry awards, and his humor anthology ""Naked Brain"""
"have been his 104th birthday, April 28, 2015. Lee Falk Lee Falk (), born Leon Harrison Gross (; April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American writer, theater director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strips ""The Phantom"" (1936–present) and ""Mandrake the Magician"" (1934–2013). At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of pulp novels about ""The Phantom"". A playwright and theatrical director/producer, Falk directed actors such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico"
"Last the 1948 Show"" was often called Mr Pest, according to John Cleese. Feldman was co-author, along with Cleese, Chapman, and Brooke-Taylor of the ""Four Yorkshiremen"" sketch, which was written for ""At Last the 1948 Show"". Feldman was given his own series on the BBC called ""Marty"" in 1968; it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin, and Roland MacLeod, with Cleese as one of the writers. Feldman won two BAFTA awards. The second series in 1969 was renamed ""It's Marty"" (the second title being retained for the DVD of the show) In 1971, Feldman gave evidence in favour of the defendants in"
"Studio on the story adaptation for 1937's feature film ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". Merrill De Maris Merrill De Maris (February 26, 1898, New Jersey – December 31, 1948, Escondido, California) was an American writer who worked on Disney Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate. De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips; they co-created famous characters like Phantom Blot, Chief O'Hara and Detective Casey. In 1942 they gave Minnie Mouse a full name as Minerva Mouse, for the four-month comic strip story ""The Gleam"". He also helped Carl Barks with one of"