Zvee Scooler
Zvee Scooler (December 1, 1899 – March 25, 1985) was a Russian-born American actor and radio commentator. He was born in Kamenets-Podolsky (now Ukraine). He performed in both Yiddish and English, on the stage, television, and film. He is probably best known for his roles in Fiddler on the Roof, playing Mordcha, the innkeeper in the Broadway play and the rabbi in the film version. He appeared as Duddy's grandfather in the 1974 film "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz". Another of his more notable roles was that of Boris' father in Woody Allen's Love and Death. He was known as the Grammeister on WEVD, a Yiddish radio station in New York City. Every Sunday, Scooler presented a ten-minute segment on the radio show, Forward Hour, which was news and commentary in rhyme. He died in New York City on March 25, 1985, at age 85. Source: Article "Zvee Scooler" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Fiddler on the Roof
as RabbiIn a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined...
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as New York Rabbi (uncredited)In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted...
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Love and Death
as FatherIn czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate...
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Playing for Time
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Lady Ice
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King of the Gypsies
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No Way to Treat a Lady
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Hester Street
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A Dream of Kings
as ZenoitisA Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean...
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Thieves
as Old ManMartin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches;...
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Over the Brooklyn Bridge
as RebbeA put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his...
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as GrandfatherThe younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a...
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Andy
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Uncle Moses
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Naked City
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