Theodore Bikel Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Theodore Meir Bikel (born 2 May 1924) is an Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, and composer. He made his film debut in The African Queen (1951) and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958).Bikel is President of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America and was president of Actors' Equity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Partners for Progressive Israel, where he also lectures. His autobiography, Theo, was published in 1995.
Full Name
Theodore Bikel
Net Worth
$1.7 Million
Date Of Birth
May 2, 1924
Died
July 21, 2015, Westwood, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Height
1.85 m
Occupation
Film, television actor; folk singer
Profession
Actor, Teacher, Singer, Businessperson, Composer, Record producer, Screenwriter
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Movies
The Defiant Ones, The African Queen, My Fair Lady, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Enemy Below, The Pride and the Passion, I Want to Live!, 200 Motels, Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem, The Blue Angel, My Side of the Mountain, The Colditz Story, Above Us the Wave...
TV Shows
Another World, Testimony of Two Men, Directions
Star Sign
Taurus
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Quote
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[on President Reagan's annual budget cuts to the arts] Every profession has its John Wilkes Booth. Ours is Reagan.
2
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
3
I tried for awhile to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
4
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.
5
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
6
You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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Fact
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Following his death, he was interred at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California, at the Garden of Solomon.
2
Theodore Bikel screen tested for the title role of the James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), which went to Gert Fröbe.
3
Bikel's folk song record album, "Songs of a Russian Gypsy" (1958) became an unexpected hit and remained highly popular through the early 1960s. This became Elektra Records' best selling album at the time.
4
His parents, Miriam Gizella (Riegler) and Josef Bikel-Hasenfratz, were Jewish immigrants from Bukovina, in Central Europe.
5
Had performed the role of Tevye ("Fiddler on the Roof") over 2,000 times at various venues.
6
While making his film debut in The African Queen (1951), he appeared on the London stage in "Love of Four Colonels".
7
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the song "Edelweiss" specifically for him to perform on Broadway in "The Sound of Music".
8
Co-founded the Newport Folk Festival (with Pete Seeger).
9
Had played submarine officers from three different European navies: as the executive officer of a German World War II U-Boat in the film The Enemy Below (1957); as retired World War I Austro-Hungarian U-Boat Captain Georg Von Trapp in the original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music (1965); and as the captain of a Soviet submarine during the Cold War in the film The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966).
10
He made guest appearances on both of the longest running prime time dramas in US television history: Gunsmoke (1955) and Law & Order (1990).
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 29, 2005.
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Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1958, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "The Rope Dancers", and in 1960, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "The Sound of Music".
