Job Actor
Years active 1934-1990
Top Roles Moving Van Passenger, Spats' Henchman, Moose Malloy, Sgt. Monk Menkowicz, Yusuf
Top GenresComedy, Drama, Romance, Crime, Adventure, Action
Top TopicsBook-Based, World War II, Romance (Comic)
Top Collaborators (Director), (Director), (Producer), (Producer)
Shares birthday with Humphrey Bogart, Joseph M. Schenck, Lewis Allen  see more..

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Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet

Fan rating: 9.60
The Spanish Main

The Spanish Main

Fan rating: 9.50
The Egyptian

The Egyptian

Fan rating: 9.00

Mike Mazurki Overview:

Character actor, Mike Mazurki, was born Michail Mazuruski on Dec 25, 1907 in Tarnopol, Galicia. Mazurki died at the age of 83 on Dec 9, 1990 in Glendale, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

MINI BIO:

Austrian-born actor. In America from an early age, he was a professional footballer and wrestler before taking his huge frame to Hollywood to play hoodlums' henchmen. Dim-looking (but actually well-educated), with hook nose, open mouth and aggressive, small-eyed stare, he would have done any Damon Runyon story proud, and became the definitive Moose Malloy in the 1945 version of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Mike Mazurki Quotes:

Roshko: We were the best burglars of the Left Bank, my little Mouse and me. We gotta expand. We'll rob the Right Bank, too.

Flat Mouth: Medicine Mound. Sacred. Comanche only go there to meet Great Spirit.

Mouse: Do you think he has an even chance to keep them off us... and still get through?
Roshko: With him, the chance is always better than even.

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Mike Mazurki Facts
Well known to generations of wrestling fans as "Iron" Mike Mazurki, whom he delighted with several world-class battles in during his long career. Outside the squared circle, Mike was dedicated to serving those in his wrestling brotherhood, and in the 1960s founded the "Cauliflower Alley Club", a non-profit organization that awarded scholarships and financial assistance to retired or injured wrestlers and their families.
Awarded the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame's New York State Award, which was presented to an individual who made significant contributions to the sport of Professional Wrestling in the PWHF's home state of New York.
Best remembered as the lumbering, intense yet soft-hearted Moose Malloy in the classic 1945 film-noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', called Murder, My Sweet (1944) in the US (while retaining the novel's title overseas).
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