 Mostel died upstage right after the first public performance of the play in Philadelphia.Banham also appeared in several Off- and Off-off-Broadway plays, and co-starred in the ninth biggest movie of 1979, "Meatballs", directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray in his first film role.That year he was cast as Brad Hopkins in producer Norman Lear's short-lived television situation comedy, "Joe's World", opposite Christopher Knight from "The Brady Bunch".