Biography

Playing pretty much the same character in almost all his pictures, Fritz Feld, with his pencil-thin mustache, passed as barons, maitre d', hotel clerks and aristocrats. His famous trademark, usually when his character was incensed, was to "pop" his mouth by slapping it with the palm of his hand to indicate his "superior" annoyance. No one could ever determine his characters' nationality but he can be described as a mixture of "French and Belgianish" or from "somewhere in Europe.".

With Joseph Schildkraut, co-founder of the Hollywood Playhouse theatre.

Feld was married to character/supporting actress Virginia Christine, who was twenty years his junior, from 1940 until his death in 1993.

He developed a characterization that came to define him. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a "pop!" sound that indicated both his superiority and his annoyance. The first use of the "pop" sound was in Four Jacks and a Jill (1942).

In one 1967 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), "The Napoleon's Tomb Affair", Feld played a banker, a beatnik, a diplomat, and a waiter.