Known for:	The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Front
Birth name:	Samuel Joel Mostel
Birthday:	28 February 1915, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height:	5' 11" 1.80 m

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. One of the "12" blacklisted by the house of Un-American activities commitee in the 1950s. Tony Award winner 1961 for "Rhinoceros." Blacklisted in the 1950s. He drank so much coffee that he was once hospitalized for caffeine poisoning. Won three Tony Award: as Best Actor (Dramatic) in1961 for "Rhinoceros," and as Best Actor (Musical) in 1963 for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and in 1965 for "Fiddler on the Roof." He was also nominated in 1974 as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "Ulysses in Nighttown." In the 1950s, he bumped into Elia Kazan on the street in New York City, and the two reminisced. Kazan said Mostel chided him for putting Mostel through the paces in Panic in the Streets (1950) , forcing him to run more than he ever had. But as the drinks set in, legend has it, Mostel kept muttering, in reference to Kazan's HUAC testimony, "Ya shouldn't a done that. Ya shouldn't a done that."

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