Nickname:	Zep
Known for:	Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers
Birth name:	Herbert Marx
Birthday:	25 February 1901, New York, New York, USA
Height:	5' 9" (1.75 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Brother of Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Gummo Marx. Brother-in-law of Eden Hartford, Ruth Johnson, Kay Marvis, and Susan Fleming. Throughout his life, he had many careers including inventor, talent agent, manufacturer, commercial fisherman, and grapefruit grower. In real life, he was supposedly the funniest of his brothers despite always playing the straight man in their films. He was a serious amateur machinist, and among the products his company, Marman, developed in the late 1940s was a 2-cylinder motorized bicycle, the Marman Twin (produced 1948-49). Unfortunately, his bike was unable to compete with the more established Whizzers, despite being far more powerful. These bikes are highly collectible today. Since he'd missed out when his brothers received their nicknames, he was given one by his siblings. He was always practicing acrobatics, so he was named "Zippo" -- after "Mr. Zippo," the star of a well-known chimpanzee act. Feeling it was unflattering, he insisted it be Zeppo. Another version of this story , was that his name was changed to "Zeppo" in honor of the then popular "Zepplin". At the time of his death, he was the last surviving of The Marx Brothers. When he married Barbara Marx, her son, Bobby Oliver, took the Marx surname, although Marx never legally adopted him. Officially left the brothers' comedy team to become an agent on March 30, 1934.

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