# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zvee-scooler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:54:22.410Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zvee-scooler"
name: "Zvee Scooler"
slug: "zvee-scooler"
description: "Zvee Scooler was a Russian-born American actor and radio commentator. He was born in Kamenets-Podolsky and his original surname was Shkolyar. He came to the United States in 1912. He performed in both Yiddish and English, on the stage, television, and film. He first joined Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater in 1921 -- his debut was in the first American performance of S. Ansky's classic play The Dybbuk -- and remained with the company for 25 years. He is probably best known for his roles in Fiddler on the Roof, playing Mordcha, the innkeeper in the Broadway musical and the rabbi in the film version. He appeared as Duddy's grandfather in the 1974 film \"The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.\" Another of his more notable roles was that of Boris' father in Woody Allen's Love and Death."
tagline: "American actor (1899-1985)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7TZEk5PdBgYxzZsRq7g0WPWKWUf.jpg"
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: "1899-12-01"
deathDate: "1985-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.68
  momentum:             2.316666666666666
  historical:           8.359937333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778666/"
    handle:    "nm0778666"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "زیوی سکولر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvee_Scooler"
    title: "Zvee Scooler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%DA%A4%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "زڤى سكولير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "زوی اسکولر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvee_Scooler"
    title: "Zvee Scooler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "زوی اسکولر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvee_Scooler"
    title: "Zvee Scooler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A8"
    title: "צבי סקולר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvee_Scooler"
    title: "Zvee Scooler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4025032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/974329"
    title: "Zvee Scooler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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