Theodore Bikel
Born: 1924-05-02 in Vienna, Austria
Died: 2015-07-21
Known For: Acting
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
2016
- Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
2014
- Journey 4 Artists as Self
2010
2009
- The Little Traitor as Interrogator
2004
2002
- Crime and Punishment as Captain Koch
1998
- Babylon 5: In the Beginning as Lenonn
- Second Chances as Dutch John Hathaway
1997
- Brooklyn South as Solomon Shuyler
- Shadow Conspiracy as Prof. Yuri Pochenko
1996
- The Pretender as Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg
1995
- JAG as Farmer with Plane
- My Family Treasure as Grandpa Danieloff
- More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' as Self / Zoltan Karpathy
1994
- Babylon 5 as Rabbi Koslov
- 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
- Memories of Midnight as Napoleon Chotas
1990
- Law & Order as Sol Bregman
1989
- The New Lassie
- Christine Cromwell
- See You in the Morning as Bronie
- The Final Days as Henry Kissinger
- Łódź Ghetto as (voice)
1988
- A Stoning in Fulham County as Abe Moser
- The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as Self
- Inside the Soviet Circus as Narrator
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Sergey Rozhenko
- Beauty and the Beast as Eli
- Dark Tower as Max Gold
1986
- L.A. Law as Kurt Rubin
- Very Close Quarters as Victor
1985
- The Equalizer
- Prince Jack as Georgi
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Rosanno Bertolucci
- Cover Up
- Glitter
1982
- Knight Rider as Graham Deauville
- Hotel
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981
- Falcon Crest as Marin Dimitrov
- Dynasty
- The Fall Guy
1980
- The Return of the King as Aragorn (voice)
- Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
1978
- Fantasy Island as Ambassador Eric Soro
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Loose Change as Tom Feiffer
- The Stingiest Man in Town as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1977
- The San Pedro Beach Bums
- Testimony of Two Men as Peter Heger
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Prof. Wycinski
- Victory at Entebbe as Yakov Shlomo
1975
- Medical Story as Danziger
- Murder on Flight 502 as Otto Gruenwaldt
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Yuli Pyatakov
- Police Woman
1972
- Killer by Night as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
- The Little Ark as The Captain
1971
- Columbo as Oliver Brandt
- Cannon
- All in the Family as Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer
- 200 Motels as Rance Muhammitz / Dave
- The Making of 200 Motels as Self
1970
- Darker Than Amber as Meyer
1969
- My Side of the Mountain as Bando
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Prof. Erich Stoss
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Mod Squad
- Sweet November as Alonzo
1967
- Ironside
- Festival as Self
- The Desperate Ones as Kisielev
- The Diary of Anne Frank as Hans Van Daan
- Saint Joan as Robert de Baudricourt
1966
- Mission: Impossible as General Casimir Zepke
- ABC Stage 67 as Homer T. Hatch
- The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! as The Russian captain
- Noon Wine as Homer T. Hatch
1965
- Sands of the Kalahari as Bondrechai
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self - Folk Singer
- My Fair Lady as Zoltan Karpathy
- Another World
1963
- Burke's Law as Vic Bates
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Tonight in Person as Self
1962
- Combat! as Francois Perrault
- Sam Benedict
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Mahmel Homatka
- The Dick Powell Show as Captain Bellini
1960
- Route 66
- The Dybbuk as Sender
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Oliver Crangle
- Rawhide as Pence
- The Angry Hills as Dimitrios Tassos
- A Dog of Flanders as Piet van Gelder
- Woman Obsessed as Dr. R. W. Gibbs
- The Blue Angel as Klepert
1958
- Naked City as Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski
- The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
- I Want to Live! as Carl G.G. Palmberg
- I Bury the Living as Andy McKee
- Fraulein as Col. Dimitri Bucaron
1957
- Wagon Train as Dr. Denker
- DuPont Show of the Month as Capt. Alvarado
- 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
- Gunsmoke as Martin Kellums
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sergeant Ottermole
- The Colditz Story as Vandy
- Strange Experiences as Man
- Above Us the Waves as German Officer
1954
- Climax! as Martin Humphries
- Betrayed as German Sergeant (uncredited)
- Forbidden Cargo as Max
- The Love Lottery as Parsimonious
- The Divided Heart as Josip
- The Young Lovers as Joseph
1953
- Never Let Me Go as Lieutenant
- Melba as Paul Brotha
- The Kidnappers as Dr. Willem Bloem
- A Day to Remember as Henri Dubot
- Desperate Moment as Anton
1952
- The African Queen as First Officer
- Moulin Rouge as King Milo IV of Serbia
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Uncle Lajos
1948
- Studio One as Machek
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self