The brilliant but tragic life of comedian Marty Feldman: He wasn’t allowed on television because his eyes ‘frightened’ people
Marty Feldman was a comic genius who never missed an opportunity to make fun of himself. The Brit got his big breakthrough in Mel Brooks’ 1974 film Young Frankenstein, where his character’s name, Igor, was pronounced: “Eye-Gor.” Unfortunately, Feldman suffered from thyroid eye disease – also known as Graves’ disease – which made his eyes both misaligned, … Read more