Shtick: Sneering foreigner. Criminal, petty tyrant. Sneering, criminal petty foreign tyrant.

Ambiguous and un-placeable accent which allowed him to be cast as a kind of crypto-European – ideally, a speaker of Gellerese* – even though he was from Ecuador.

Proud bearer of the Combover of the Gods – a pantheon of which Zero Mostel is the reigning deity:

*Gellerese: the absurd artificial language(s) used in Bruce Geller’s Mission Impossible to represent German and Slavic languages on signage in a way that was decipherable by the American TV audience. Examples: KLASFYD INFORMAZION, BELTEN ATTACHEN.