Theodore Bikel

Personal Info

Birthday

May 2, 1924

Day of Death

2015-07-21

(91 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Also Known As

Theodore Meir Bikel

Теодор Байкел

تئودور بیکل

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.

Known For

Law & Order

Columbo

Star Trek: The Next Generation

JAG

Murder, She Wrote

Knight Rider

Babylon 5

Combat!

Filmography

2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
2014
Journey 4 Artists
as Self
2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
as Self
2007
The Little Traitor
as Interrogator
2004
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
as Himself
2002
Crime and Punishment
as Captain Koch
1998
Second Chances
as Dutch John Hathaway
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
as Lenonn
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
as Prof. Yuri Pochenko
1995
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
as Self / Zoltan Karpathy (as Theo Bikel)
My Family Treasure
as Grandpa Danieloff
1994
In the Month of Kislev
as Narrator
1993
Benefit of the Doubt
as Gideon Lee
1992
Crisis in the Kremlin
as Leo
1991
Shattered
as Dr. Berkus
1989
The Final Days
as Henry Kissinger
See You in the Morning
as Bronie
Łódź Ghetto
as (voice)
1988
A Stoning in Fulham County
as Abe Moser
Inside the Soviet Circus
as Narrator
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
as Self
1987
Dark Tower
as Max Gold
1985
Prince Jack
as Georgi
1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1980
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
The Return of the King
as Aragorn (voice)
1978
The Stingiest Man in Town
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
Loose Change
as Tom Feiffer
1976
Victory at Entebbe
as Yakov Shlomo
1975
Murder on Flight 502
as Otto Gruenwaldt
1972
The Little Ark
as The Captain
Killer by Night
as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
1971
Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels
as Self
200 Motels
as Rance Muhammitz / Dave
1970
Darker Than Amber
as Meyer
1969
My Side of the Mountain
as Bando
1968
Sweet November
as Alonzo
1967
Saint Joan
as Robert de Baudricourt
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Hans Van Daan
Festival
as Self
The Desperate Ones
as Kisielev
1966
Noon Wine
as Homer T. Hatch
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
as The Russian captain
1965
Sands of the Kalahari
as Bondrechai
1964
My Fair Lady
as Zoltan Karpathy
1960
The Dybbuk
as Sender
1959
The Blue Angel
as Klepert
The Angry Hills
as Dimitrios Tassos
Woman Obsessed
as Dr. R. W. Gibbs
A Dog of Flanders
as Piet van Gelder
1958
I Want to Live!
as Carl G.G. Palmberg
The Defiant Ones
as Sheriff Max Muller
I Bury the Living
as Andy McKee
Fraulein
as Col. Dimitri Bucaron
1957
The Enemy Below
as Heinie Schwaffer
The Pride and the Passion
as General Jouvet
The Vintage
as Eduardo Uribari
1956
Flight from Vienna
as Col. Sandor Kosice
1955
Above Us the Waves
as German Officer
The Colditz Story
as Vandy
1954
The Divided Heart
as Josip
Betrayed
as German Sergeant (uncredited)
The Young Lovers
as Joseph
Forbidden Cargo
as Max
The Love Lottery
as Parsimonious
1953
The Kidnappers
as Dr. Willem Bloem
A Day to Remember
as Henri Dubot
Melba
as Paul Brotha
Never Let Me Go
as Lieutenant
Desperate Moment
as Anton
1952
Moulin Rouge
as King Milo IV of Serbia
The African Queen
as First Officer