# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hy-anzell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:11:57.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hy-anzell"
name: "Hy Anzell"
slug: "hy-anzell"
description: "Hy Anzell was a Yiddish-speaking American actor. He originated the role of the flower shop owner, \"Mr. Mushnik\", in the original off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors with Ellen Greene and Lee Wilkof. He was also in the original 1976 Broadway cast of Checking Out."
tagline: "Yiddish-speaking American television and movie actor (1923-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hy_Anzell_ca._1950.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1923-09-07"
deathDate: "2003-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.609828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0031742/"
    handle:    "nm0031742"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3a0446a5-eafe-47eb-bb6a-6171d389310b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy_Anzell"
    title: "Hy Anzell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy_Anzell"
    title: "Hy Anzell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy_Anzell"
    title: "Hy Anzell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%98%EC%9D%B4_%EC%95%A4%EC%A0%A4"
    title: "하이 앤젤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy_Anzell"
    title: "Hy Anzell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "ہائے اینزیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5952187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1217974"
    title: "Hy Anzell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump