Carol played Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, who dated and ultimately married Latka (Andy Kaufman) on the show. The series won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for Outstanding Comedy Series. The show was ...

How many Broadway shows has Carol Kane been in? Carol Kane has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows. How many West End shows has Carol Kane been in? Carol Kane has appeared on London's West End in 1 ...

“Thank You Very Much” opens with video of two of his early high-wire bits: The meek “Foreign Man” (who would become Latka Gravas on “Taxi”) telling terrible jokes in a halting accent ...

(He played mechanic Latka Gravas.) Created by Emmy-nominated director Alex Braverman, the film explores how Kaufman's unusual approach to comedy came to be. Up until he was nearly 5, Kaufman ...

(He played mechanic Latka Gravas.) Created by Emmy-nominated director Alex Braverman, the film explores how Kaufman's unusual approach to comedy came to be. Up until he was nearly 5, Kaufman enjoyed a ...

Before he turned into Latka Gravas on “Taxi,” Foreign Man showed up in short sets on shows like “Van Dyke and Company.” In one of the first, Foreign Man loses a Fonzie look-alike contest ...

After Kaufman was cast on the hit sitcom “Taxi,” as the lovable, unidentifiably accented mechanic Latka Gravas, he took a part-time job as a busboy at a Hollywood cafe and, during one shift ...

where he played Latka Gravas, an immigrant mechanic based on the Foreign Man character he had developed in his act, who often sounded bewildered and said, “Thank you very much.” Kaufman’s ...

(“Foreign Man” would become the basis of Latka Gravas when Kaufman was cast on Taxi in 1978.) The comedic shtick of “Foreign Man” has, most agree, aged incredibly badly. The root of the ...