Theodore Bikel
Acting • Born 1924-05-02 – Died 2015-07-21
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.
Filmography
143 credits
The African Queen
Movie • 1952
First Officer
The Return of the King
Movie • 1980
Aragorn (voice)
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Movie • 1998
Lenonn
Melba
Movie • 1953
Paul Brotha
Victory at Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Yakov Shlomo
The Defiant Ones
Movie • 1958
Sheriff Max Muller
The Pride and the Passion
Movie • 1957
General Jouvet
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Movie • 1966
The Russian captain
I Bury the Living
Movie • 1958
Andy McKee
200 Motels
Movie • 1971
Rance Muhammitz / Dave
I Want to Live!
Movie • 1958
Carl G.G. Palmberg
Above Us the Waves
Movie • 1955
German Officer
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Movie • 1988
Self
My Side of the Mountain
Movie • 1969
Bando
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
Movie • 1980
Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
The Enemy Below
Movie • 1957
Heinie Schwaffer
The Making of 200 Motels
Movie • 1971
Self
Shadow Conspiracy
Movie • 1997
Prof. Yuri Pochenko
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Movie • 2010
Self
Festival
Movie • 1967
Self
Second Chances
Movie • 1998
Dutch John Hathaway
Never Let Me Go
Movie • 1953
Lieutenant
Darker Than Amber
Movie • 1970
Meyer
The Kidnappers
Movie • 1953
Dr. Willem Bloem
Sands of the Kalahari
Movie • 1965
Bondrechai
Sweet November
Movie • 1968
Alonzo
The Angry Hills
Movie • 1959
Dimitrios Tassos
Dark Tower
Movie • 1987
Max Gold
Murder on Flight 502
Movie • 1975
Otto Gruenwaldt
See You in the Morning
Movie • 1989
Bronie
The Young Lovers
Movie • 1954
Joseph
A Dog of Flanders
Movie • 1959
Piet van Gelder
The Divided Heart
Movie • 1954
Josip
Forbidden Cargo
Movie • 1954
Max
Woman Obsessed
Movie • 1959
Dr. R. W. Gibbs
Crisis in the Kremlin
Movie • 1992
Leo
The Little Ark
Movie • 1972
The Captain
A Day to Remember
Movie • 1953
Henri Dubot
The Vintage
Movie • 1957
Eduardo Uribari
The Final Days
Movie • 1989
Henry Kissinger
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Movie • 2004
Himself
The Blue Angel
Movie • 1959
Klepert
My Fair Lady
Movie • 1964
Zoltan Karpathy
Fraulein
Movie • 1958
Col. Dimitri Bucaron
The Stingiest Man in Town
Movie • 1978
Marley's Ghost (voice)
Killer by Night
Movie • 1972
Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
Moulin Rouge
Movie • 1952
King Milo IV of Serbia
Saint Joan
Movie • 1967
Robert de Baudricourt
Noon Wine
Movie • 1966
Homer T. Hatch
Prince Jack
Movie • 1985
Georgi
Betrayed
Movie • 1954
German Sergeant (uncredited)
The Love Lottery
Movie • 1954
Parsimonious
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Movie • 2016
Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
A Stoning in Fulham County
Movie • 1988
Abe Moser
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 2002
Captain Koch
Benefit of the Doubt
Movie • 1993
Gideon Lee
Inside the Soviet Circus
Movie • 1988
Narrator
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie • 1967
Hans Van Daan
The Desperate Ones
Movie • 1967
Kisielev
Flight from Vienna
Movie • 1956
Col. Sandor Kosice
In the Month of Kislev
Movie • 1994
Narrator
The Colditz Story
Movie • 1955
Vandy
The Dybbuk
Movie • 1960
Sender
Very Close Quarters
Movie • 1986
Victor
Shattered
Movie • 1991
Dr. Berkus
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
Movie • 1995
Self / Zoltan Karpathy
My Family Treasure
Movie • 1995
Grandpa Danieloff
The Little Traitor
Movie • 2007
Interrogator
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
Łódź Ghetto
Movie • 1989
(voice)
Journey 4 Artists
Movie • 2014
Self
Desperate Moment
Movie • 1953
Anton
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Marin Dimitrov
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Rosanno Bertolucci
Columbo
TV • 1971
Oliver Brandt
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Captain Bellini
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Sol Bregman
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Vic Bates
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Kurt Rubin
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
The Pretender
TV • 1996
Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Prof. Erich Stoss
All in the Family
TV • 1971
Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer
Knight Rider
TV • 1982
Graham Deauville
Beauty and the Beast
TV • 1987
Route 66
TV • 1960
Dynasty
TV • 1981
Naked City
TV • 1958
Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Prof. Wycinski
Hotel
TV • 1982
Tonight in Person
TV • 1963
Self
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Babylon 5
TV • 1994
Rabbi Koslov
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Martin Kellums
Studio One
TV • 1948
Machek
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Combat!
TV • 1962
Francois Perrault
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
General Casimir Zepke
Cannon
TV • 1971
JAG
TV • 1995
Farmer with Plane
Another World
TV • 1964
The Amazing Spider-Man
TV • 1978
Cover Up
TV • 1984
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Uncle Lajos
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Fall Guy
TV • 1981
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Sergeant Ottermole
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Pence
Police Woman
TV • 1974
The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self - Folk Singer
The New Lassie
TV • 1989
Climax!
TV • 1954
Martin Humphries
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
ABC Stage 67
TV • 1966
Homer T. Hatch
The San Pedro Beach Bums
TV • 1977
Brooklyn South
TV • 1997
Solomon Shuyler
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Mahmel Homatka
Christine Cromwell
TV • 1989
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Oliver Crangle
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Naked City
TV • 1958
Dr. Stanley Wilford
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Yuri Lermentov
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Inspector Van Horn
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Senor Manfred Gonzales
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Nicholas Simonakis
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Professor Harold Crenshaw
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Sergey Rozhenko
Memories of Midnight
TV • 1991
Napoleon Chotas
Studio One
TV • 1948
Henri Blanchard
Studio One
TV • 1948
Julius Caesar
Studio One
TV • 1948
Grossman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
De Baudricourt
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Capt. Alvarado
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Medical Story
TV • 1975
Danziger
Fantasy Island
TV • 1978
Ambassador Eric Soro
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Testimony of Two Men
TV • 1977
Peter Heger
Loose Change
TV • 1978
Tom Feiffer
Glitter
TV • 1984
Strange Experiences
TV • 1955
Man