Posted on 07/21/2015 12:15:45 PM PDT by Borges
He also created Von Trapp for 'The Sound of Music' for the stage, earned an Oscar nom for 'The Defiant Ones' and was an accomplished folk singer.
Theodore Bikel, a prolific performer and political activist who created the role of Captain Georg Von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music and defined the role of Tevye the Milkman during more than 2,200 performances of Fiddler on the Roof, has died. He was 91.
Bikel died of natural causes on Tuesday morning at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll announced.
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He was a really good character actor. He was in numerous TV shows and Movies from the 1950’s on.
They could have left out Political Activist, bad Joss.
Just last night I watched an episode of Columbo he was in...masterful job.
RIP Mr. Bikel.
One of my first albums was Bikel’s folk songs from all over the world. A folkie friend at school gave it to me. Still remember some of the songs, although the album is long lost.
People say his versions were not authentic, sort of like the Clancy Brothers, but who cares? He had a feeling for the hidden meaning usually buried in a folk song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeVfzY3Fzu0
I just saw him in The African Queen.
My brother’s never going to guess this one in 20 questions today!
He was good on screen. Even visited Babylon 5.
My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, great actor.
One of my favorite things he did was a reading of some Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short stories, including Gimpel the Fool. His rich voice was like cold cream poured on strawberries.
He was the U-boat second in command in “The Enemy Below” opposite Kurt Jurgens.
Then he commanded a Soviet submarine in “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming”.
My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, great actor.
One of my favorite things he did was a reading of some Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short stories, including Gimpel the Fool. His rich voice was like cold cream poured on strawberries.
I thought he died long time ago
He was in a Twilight Zone episode were he was going to make all the evil people 12 inches tall.
Political activist = Liberal trouble-maker
RIP.
Always liked that movie. 'Steady on course 140, Mr. Ware...'
Saw him in Sound of Music at the old Erlanger Theater in downtown Chicago when I was a kid (around 1960).
Outed Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
That blackguard who uses the science of speech
More to blackmail and swindle than teach;
He made it the devilish business of his
“To find out who this Miss Doolittle is.”
Every time we looked around
There he was, that hairy hound From Budapest.
Never leaving us alone, Never have I ever known
A ruder pest!
Finally I decided it was foolish
Not to let him have his chance with her.
So I stepped aside and let him dance with her.
Oozing charm from every pore
He oiled his way around the floor.
Every trick that he could play,
He used to strip her mask away.
And when at last the dance was done,
He glowed as if he knew he’d won!
And with a voice too eager,
And a smile too broad, He announced to the hostess
That she was a fraud!
Mrs. Pearce: No!
Henry: Ja vol!
“Her English is too good”, he said,
“That clearly indicates that she is foreign.
Whereas others are instructed in their native language
English people aren’t.
And although she may have studied with an expert
Dialectician and grammarian
I can tell that she was born Hungarian!”
I remember him mainly as playing Susan Ivanova’s rabbi in Babylon %.
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