Theodore Bikel

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-05-02 (91 years old)

Deathday

2015-07-21

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Theodore Bikel

Biography

Theodore Meir Bikel wa a character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones.

Acting

1952

The African Queen

as First Officer

1980

The Return of the King

as Aragorn (voice)

1953

Melba

as Paul Brotha

1976

Victory at Entebbe

as Yakov Shlomo

1958

The Defiant Ones

as Sheriff Max Muller

1957

The Pride and the Passion

as General Jouvet

1958

I Bury the Living

as Andy McKee

1971

200 Motels

as Rance Muhammitz / Dave

1958

I Want to Live!

as Carl G.G. Palmberg

1955

Above Us the Waves

as German Officer

1980

Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)

1957

The Enemy Below

as Heinie Schwaffer

1997

Shadow Conspiracy

as Prof. Yuri Pochenko

1967

Festival

as Self

1998

Second Chances

as Dutch John Hathaway

1953

Never Let Me Go

as Lieutenant

1970

1953

The Kidnappers

as Dr. Willem Bloem

1965

1968

1959

The Angry Hills

as Dimitrios Tassos

1987

Dark Tower

as Max Gold

1975

Murder on Flight 502

as Otto Gruenwaldt

1954

1959

A Dog of Flanders

as Piet van Gelder

1954

1954

1959

Woman Obsessed

as Dr. R. W. Gibbs

1972

The Little Ark

as The Captain

1953

A Day to Remember

as Henri Dubot

1957

The Vintage

as Eduardo Uribari

1989

The Final Days

as Henry Kissinger

1959

The Blue Angel

as Klepert

1964

My Fair Lady

as Zoltan Karpathy

1958

Fraulein

as Col. Dimitri Bucaron

1978

The Stingiest Man in Town

as Marley's Ghost (voice)

1972

Killer by Night

as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold

1978

Loose Change

as Tom Feiffer

1952

Moulin Rouge

as King Milo IV of Serbia

1967

Saint Joan

as Robert de Baudricourt

1966

Noon Wine

as Homer T. Hatch

1985

Prince Jack

as Georgi

1954

Betrayed

as German Sergeant (uncredited)

1954

The Love Lottery

as Parsimonious

2016

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)

2002

Crime and Punishment

as Captain Koch

1993

1967

The Diary of Anne Frank

as Hans Van Daan

1967

1956

Flight from Vienna

as Col. Sandor Kosice

1994

1955

1960

The Dybbuk

as Sender

1991

Shattered

as Dr. Berkus

1995

More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

as Self / Zoltan Karpathy (as Theo Bikel)

1995

My Family Treasure

as Grandpa Danieloff

2007

The Little Traitor

as Interrogator

1989

Łódź Ghetto

as (voice)

1953

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