
Theodore Bikel
Known for Acting · 134 credits
- Born
- 1924-05-02
- Died
- 2015-07-21
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria
- Also known as
- Theodore Meir Bikel · Теодор Байкел · تئودور بیکل · Theodor Meir Bikel
Biography
Theodore Meir Bikel (May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was 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.
Known For
TV Shows (62)

Law & Order
1990
as Sol Bregman

Columbo
1971
as Oliver Brandt

JAG
1995
as Farmer with Plane

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Sergey Rozhenko

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Rosanno Bertolucci / Yuri Lermentov / Inspector Van Horn / Professor Harold Crenshaw

Falcon Crest
1981
as Marin Dimitrov

Babylon 5
1994
as Rabbi Koslov

Ironside
1967

Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Yuli Pyatakov

Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Prof. Erich Stoss

Dynasty
1981

Wagon Train
1957
as Dr. Denker

Knight Rider
1982
as Graham Deauville

Mission: Impossible
1966
as General Casimir Zepke

Charlie's Angels
1976
as Prof. Wycinski

L.A. Law
1986
as Kurt Rubin

The Twilight Zone
1959
as Oliver Crangle

Climax!
1954
as Martin Humphries

The Equalizer
1985

Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. Mahmel Homatka
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Hotel
1982

Studio One
1948
as Machek / Henri Blanchard / Julius Caesar / Grossman

Cannon
1971

Combat!
1962
as Francois Perrault

Fantasy Island
1978
as Ambassador Eric Soro

Naked City
1958
as Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski / Dr. Stanley Wilford

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

Rawhide
1959
as Pence

Burke's Law
1963
as Vic Bates / Senor Manfred Gonzales

The Pretender
1996
as Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg

Police Woman
1974

Route 66
1960

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

Gunsmoke
1955
as Martin Kellums

The Fall Guy
1981

All in the Family
1971
as Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Sergeant Ottermole

The Mod Squad
1968

Kraft Television Theatre
1947

Brooklyn South
1997
as Solomon Shuyler

The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self - Folk Singer

Cover Up
1984

ABC Stage 67
1966
as Homer T. Hatch

The Dick Powell Show
1961
as Captain Bellini / Nicholas Simonakis

Sam Benedict
1962

Another World
1964

DuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Capt. Alvarado

Medical Story
1975
as Danziger

The Amazing Spider-Man
1978

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Uncle Lajos / De Baudricourt

The New Lassie
1989

Glitter
1984

Christine Cromwell
1989

The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977
Tonight in Person
1963
as Self

Testimony of Two Men
1977
as Peter Heger

Memories of Midnight
1991
as Napoleon Chotas

Strange Experiences
1955
as Man
Movies (72)

My Fair Lady
1964
as Zoltan Karpathy

The African Queen
1952
as First Officer

Shattered
1991
as Dr. Berkus

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966
as The Russian captain

200 Motels
1971
as Rance Muhammitz / Dave

The Enemy Below
1957
as Heinie Schwaffer

The Return of the King
1980
as Aragorn (voice)

Shadow Conspiracy
1997
as Prof. Yuri Pochenko

The Defiant Ones
1958
as Sheriff Max Muller

Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1998
as Lenonn

See You in the Morning
1989
as Bronie

Crime and Punishment
2002
as Captain Koch

Moulin Rouge
1952
as King Milo IV of Serbia

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016
as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)

The Pride and the Passion
1957
as General Jouvet

The Stingiest Man in Town
1978
as Marley's Ghost (voice)

I Want to Live!
1958
as Carl G.G. Palmberg

Murder on Flight 502
1975
as Otto Gruenwaldt

Benefit of the Doubt
1993
as Gideon Lee

Sweet November
1968
as Alonzo

Sands of the Kalahari
1965
as Bondrechai

Dark Tower
1987
as Max Gold

The Colditz Story
1955
as Vandy

The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
as Hans Van Daan

Victory at Entebbe
1976
as Yakov Shlomo

A Dog of Flanders
1959
as Piet van Gelder

The Little Traitor
2009
as Interrogator

Betrayed
1954
as German Sergeant (uncredited)

Second Chances
1998
as Dutch John Hathaway

Darker Than Amber
1970
as Meyer

My Side of the Mountain
1969
as Bando

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
as Self

The Final Days
1989
as Henry Kissinger

Above Us the Waves
1955
as German Officer

A Stoning in Fulham County
1988
as Abe Moser

Fraulein
1958
as Col. Dimitri Bucaron

The Blue Angel
1959
as Klepert

My Family Treasure
1995
as Grandpa Danieloff

The Vintage
1957
as Eduardo Uribari

Never Let Me Go
1953
as Lieutenant

Woman Obsessed
1959
as Dr. R. W. Gibbs

Forbidden Cargo
1954
as Max

Noon Wine
1966
as Homer T. Hatch

I Bury the Living
1958
as Andy McKee

More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
1995
as Self / Zoltan Karpathy

Saint Joan
1967
as Robert de Baudricourt

The Angry Hills
1959
as Dimitrios Tassos

The Love Lottery
1954
as Parsimonious

Łódź Ghetto
1989
as (voice)

The Young Lovers
1954
as Joseph

Killer by Night
1972
as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold

Prince Jack
1985
as Georgi

The Desperate Ones
1967
as Kisielev

Crisis in the Kremlin
1992
as Leo

Very Close Quarters
1986
as Victor

A Day to Remember
1953
as Henri Dubot

Desperate Moment
1953
as Anton

The Making of 200 Motels
1971
as Self

The Dybbuk
1960
as Sender

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988
as Self

The Divided Heart
1954
as Josip

The Little Ark
1972
as The Captain

Melba
1953
as Paul Brotha

Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
as Himself

The Kidnappers
1953
as Dr. Willem Bloem

Festival
1967
as Self
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
1980
as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)

In the Month of Kislev
1994
as Narrator

Flight from Vienna
1956
as Col. Sandor Kosice

Journey 4 Artists
2014
as Self

Inside the Soviet Circus
1988
as Narrator
About Theodore Bikel
Theodore Meir Bikel (May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was 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. With 134 credits spanning from 1947 to 2016, Theodore Bikel has appeared in 72 films and 62 TV shows.
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Most Popular Theodore Bikel Movies
- My Fair Lady (1964) — as Zoltan Karpathy
- The African Queen (1952) — as First Officer
- Shattered (1991) — as Dr. Berkus
- Night of 100 Stars (1982) — as Self
- The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) — as The Russian captain
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