Fred Melamed
Fred Melamed
Fred Melamedis an American actor and writer. He is best known for portraying Sy Ableman in A Serious Man, Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite, Sam Soto in In a World..., and for appearing in seven films directed by Woody Allen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 May 1956
CountryUnited States of America
years ham pancakes
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.
stars three film
It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.
long stage plans
I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.
strong jewish-tradition keeping-your-mouth-shut
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
running eight long
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
careers long acting
In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.
fun school play
I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.