
Zvee Scooler
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1 December 1899
Died25 March 1985 (age 85)
Place of birthKamianets-Podilskyï, Ukraine
Known credits16
Biography
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 …

Over the Brooklyn Bridge
1984 · Rebbe

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983 · Pa

Playing for Time
1980 · First Chessplayer

King of the Gypsies
1978 · Phuro

Thieves
1977 · Old Man

Hester Street
1975 · Rabbi

Love and Death
1975 · Father

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974 · Grandfather

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973 · New York Rabbi (uncredited)

Lady Ice
1973 · Jeweler

Fiddler on the Roof
1971 · Rabbi

A Dream of Kings
1969 · Zenoitis

No Way to Treat a Lady
1968 · Old Man

Andy
1965 · Mr. Chadakis

Naked City
1958 · Old Aaron

Uncle Moses
1932 · Charlie
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