The Last Remake of Beau Geste

Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman was an English comedy writer, comedian and actor who starred in a series of British television comedy shows, including At Last the 1948 Show, and Marty, which won two BAFTA awards and was the first Saturn Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Young... Frankenstein. Feldman was born in the East End of London, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev. He recalled his childhood as "solitary". A BBC documentary also explained that an operation due to his Graves' disease resulted in his eyes being more protruded, together with a squint . Leaving school at 15, he worked at the Dreamland fun fair in Margate. By the age of 20, he had decided to pursue a career as a comedian. In 1954, Feldman formed a writing partnership with Barry Took. They wrote situation comedies such as The Army Game and Bootsie and Snudge for British television, and the BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams. This put Feldman and Took "in the front rank of comedy writers" . The television sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show featured Feldman's first screen performances.
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