Sunday, March 7, 2021

RIP Marty Brill

 

Martin ‘Marty’ Brill died on Janaury 21, 2021. Born May 6, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, he was an American comedian. He appeared as a comedian/writer/actor/musician regularly on 1960s and 1970s TV in both variety shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show and sitcoms such as The New Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show In the late 1970s, Brill did some writing in the 1970s for the New Soupy Sales Show, also occasionally playing characters on the show, especially after Soupy's longtime sidekick (Clyde Adler) took ill during production of the series. He also was the lyricist for the short lived 1964 Broadway musical Cafe Crown.

Brill voiced King Koo Koo in the 1977 film Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure and sang one of the film's songs dub and dubbed The Six Shooter into Japanese - mentioned on SixiusXM Radio Classics.

 

BRILL, Marty (Martin Brill)

Born: 5/6/1932, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 1/21/2021, U.S.A.

 

Marty Brill’s western – actor:

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (TV) – 1982 (Buddy)

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