Biografia

Died in Mexico City of shellfish poisoning on the last day of filming a scene from Barbagialla, il terrore dei sette mari e mezzo (1983), in which he was supposed to die. A double completed the death scene. His illness was discovered by filmmaker friend Michael Mileham who had also suffered from the same poisoning but survived.

Suffered from Graves' disease during his early childhood in which, after a botched surgical operation, his condition resulted in his eyes being more protruded and misaligned (strabismus).

According to various sources, Feldman was known to get physically sick when having to watch screenings of his own work or performance.

Befriended a young teen who crashed the Frankenstein Junior (1974) set named Alan Spencer and offered encouragement to his writing career. The young scribe eventually created the TV show Troppo forte (1986).

His wife Lauretta asked him to marry her, when he supposedly made no move to do so, after nine months of daily dating.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

Money can't buy poverty.