Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor, comedian, and singer. Mostel received three Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Glo
Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof, 1964
Mostel as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses in Nighttown in 1958
Zero Mostel in 1973 on the set of the film Fore Play
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. It is based on "Tevy
Zero Mostel
…in 1979. Mostel is best known for his portrayal of comic characters, including Leopold Bloom in Marjorie Barkentin's Ulysses in Nighttown, Tevye 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 Mel Brooks's The Producers (1967). Mostel was…
Playbill from the original Broadway production
The Fiddler by Marc Chagall, c. 1912
Fiddler On the Roof by Lev Segal in Netanya, Israel