Josh Mostel
- Actor
- Soundtrack
The son of Broadway and film star Zero Mostel, Joshua Mostel is every
bit the "heavyweight" that his father was -- perhaps even heavier. A
graduate of Brandeis University, Mostel followed his father's sizable
footsteps by going on-stage. His first major film appearance was as
King Herod -- complete with anachronistic psychedelic costuming, and
surrounded by go-go girls -- in Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). Of his
three regular assignments on series television, Mostel is probably
least proud of his role as Blotto, younger brother of John Belushi's
Bluto, in Delta House (1979), the mercifully short-lived TV spin-off
of National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). Conversely, one of Joshua Mostel's
best film roles was the fish-peddling Uncle Abe in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987).
