Josh Mostel



Joshua Joseph "Josh" Mostel (born December 21, 1946) is an American actor who is best known for his roles in Jesus Crist Superstar and two Adam Sandler films, Billy Madison andBig Daddy.

Life and Career
Mostel was born in New York City, New York, the son of Kathryn Celia, an actress, dancer, and writer, and comic actor Zero Mostel. His brother Tobias is a painter, ceramic artist and professor of art, teaching in Florida.

Mostel started his career as a boy soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He graduated from Brandeis University. When a student at Brandeis, he once pushed a couch into a pond and set it afire, taking bets as to whether the couch would burn or drown first. His broadway debut was in 1971 with Unlikely Heroes. In 1979, Mostel briefly starred in the television version of the film Animal House, Delta House, as "Blotto" Blutarsky, the brother of the character Bluto (played by John Belushi in the original film). He has since appeared in many films and Broadway productions.

Mostel now lives in New York, with a summer home on Monhegan, Maine.