Theodore Bikel

Actor May 2 (died age 91) Vienna, Austria 1947–2016 (69 year career)

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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

Film

My Fair Lady

Zoltan Karpathy

Film

The African Queen

First Officer

Film

The Defiant Ones

Sheriff Max Muller

Film

The Enemy Below

Heinie Schwaffer

Film

Babylon 5: In the Beginning

Lenonn

Film

The Return of the King

Aragorn (voice)

Film

Shattered

Dr. Berkus

Film

I Want to Live!

Carl G.G. Palmberg

Filmography

Acting (133)

Movies (72)

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

2016

as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)

7.3

Journey 4 Artists

2014

as Self

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

as Self

The Little Traitor

as Interrogator

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

2004

as Himself

Crime and Punishment

2002

as Captain Koch

5.0

Second Chances

1998

as Dutch John Hathaway

7.7

Babylon 5: In the Beginning

1998

as Lenonn

7.2

Shadow Conspiracy

1997

as Prof. Yuri Pochenko

5.0

My Family Treasure

1995

as Grandpa Danieloff

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

1995

as Self / Zoltan Karpathy (as Theo Bikel)

7.0

In the Month of Kislev

1994

as Narrator

Benefit of the Doubt

1993

as Gideon Lee

4.5

Crisis in the Kremlin

as Leo

Shattered

as Dr. Berkus

See You in the Morning

1989

as Bronie

5.9

Łódź Ghetto

1989

as (voice)

The Final Days

1989

as Henry Kissinger

6.8

Inside the Soviet Circus

1988

as Narrator

A Stoning in Fulham County

1988

as Abe Moser

5.5

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

as Self

Dark Tower

as Max Gold

Very Close Quarters

Prince Jack

as Georgi

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

6.7

The Return of the King

1980

as Aragorn (voice)

6.4

Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

1980

as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)

The Stingiest Man in Town

1978

as Marley's Ghost (voice)

Victory at Entebbe

as Yakov Shlomo

Murder on Flight 502

as Otto Gruenwaldt

The Little Ark

as The Captain

Killer by Night

as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold

7.0

Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels

1971

as Self

200 Motels

1971

as Rance Muhammitz / Dave

5.2

Darker Than Amber

1970

as Meyer

6.4

My Side of the Mountain

as Bando

Sweet November

as Alonzo

The Desperate Ones

as Kisielev

Saint Joan

1967

as Robert de Baudricourt

Festival

1967

as Self

5.7

The Diary of Anne Frank

1967

as Hans Van Daan

6.0

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

1966

as The Russian captain

6.4

Noon Wine

1966

as Homer T. Hatch

7.0

Sands of the Kalahari

as Bondrechai

My Fair Lady

as Zoltan Karpathy

The Dybbuk

as Sender

Woman Obsessed

as Dr. R. W. Gibbs

The Angry Hills

as Dimitrios Tassos

The Blue Angel

as Klepert

A Dog of Flanders

as Piet van Gelder

Fraulein

as Col. Dimitri Bucaron

7.0

The Defiant Ones

1958

as Sheriff Max Muller

7.1

I Want to Live!

1958

as Carl G.G. Palmberg

I Bury the Living

as Andy McKee

The Enemy Below

as Heinie Schwaffer

The Pride and the Passion

as General Jouvet

The Vintage

as Eduardo Uribari

Flight from Vienna

as Col. Sandor Kosice

The Colditz Story

as Vandy

Above Us the Waves

as German Officer

Betrayed

as German Sergeant (uncredited)

The Divided Heart

as Josip

The Young Lovers

as Joseph

The Love Lottery

as Parsimonious

Forbidden Cargo

as Max

Never Let Me Go

as Lieutenant

Desperate Moment

as Anton

Melba

as Paul Brotha

The Kidnappers

as Dr. Willem Bloem

A Day to Remember

as Henri Dubot

The African Queen

as First Officer

Moulin Rouge

as King Milo IV of Serbia

6.7

Television (61)

Brooklyn South

1997

as Solomon Shuyler

9.7

The Pretender

1996

as Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg

JAG

as Farmer with Plane

Babylon 5

as Lenonn

Memories of Midnight

as Napoleon Chotas

Law & Order

as Sol Bregman

Christine Cromwell

The New Lassie

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Sergey Rozhenko

Beauty and the Beast

L.A. Law

as Kurt Rubin

The Equalizer

Murder, She Wrote

as Professor Harold Crenshaw

Cover Up

Glitter

Knight Rider

as Graham Deauville

Hotel

Dynasty

Falcon Crest

as Marin Dimitrov

The Fall Guy

Fantasy Island

as Ambassador Eric Soro

6.4

The Amazing Spider-Man

1978

6.2

Loose Change

1978

as Tom Feiffer

Testimony of Two Men

1977

as Peter Heger

5.0

The San Pedro Beach Bums

Charlie's Angels

as Prof. Wycinski

Medical Story

as Danziger

Little House on the Prairie

Police Woman

Columbo

as Oliver Brandt

Cannon

All in the Family

as Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Hawaii Five-O

as Prof. Erich Stoss

The Mod Squad

Ironside

Mission: Impossible

as General Casimir Zepke

ABC Stage 67

as Homer T. Hatch

The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Folk Singer

4.5

Another World

1964

5.2

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Burke's Law

as Vic Bates

Tonight in Person

as Self

Combat!

as Francois Perrault

Sam Benedict

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

Dr. Kildare

1961

as Dr. Mahmel Homatka

The Dick Powell Show

as Captain Bellini

Route 66

The Twilight Zone

as Oliver Crangle

Rawhide

as Pence

Naked City

as Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski

5.5

DuPont Show of the Month

1957

as Capt. Alvarado

6.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

as Sergeant Ottermole

Gunsmoke

as Martin Kellums

Strange Experiences

as Man

Climax!

1954

as Martin Humphries

3.3

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Uncle Lajos

Studio One

as Machek

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

7.5