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Theodore Bikel, Broadway's 'Fiddler on the Roof' Star, Dies at 91
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 7/21/2015 | Duane Byrge

Posted on 07/21/2015 12:15:45 PM PDT by Borges

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1 posted on 07/21/2015 12:15:45 PM PDT by Borges
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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.


2 posted on 07/21/2015 12:18:07 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Borges
He also starred in Frank Zappa's 200 Motels...
3 posted on 07/21/2015 12:21:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Borges

Just last night I watched an episode of Columbo he was in...masterful job.

RIP Mr. Bikel.


4 posted on 07/21/2015 12:24:15 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Borges

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


5 posted on 07/21/2015 12:29:43 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Borges

I just saw him in The African Queen.


6 posted on 07/21/2015 12:34:34 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Borges

My brother’s never going to guess this one in 20 questions today!


7 posted on 07/21/2015 12:38:09 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: SZonian

He was good on screen. Even visited Babylon 5.


8 posted on 07/21/2015 12:39:45 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Borges

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.


9 posted on 07/21/2015 12:40:10 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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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”.


10 posted on 07/21/2015 12:40:17 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Borges

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.


11 posted on 07/21/2015 12:41:00 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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12 posted on 07/21/2015 12:41:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Borges

I thought he died long time ago


13 posted on 07/21/2015 12:43:56 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Borges

He was in a Twilight Zone episode were he was going to make all the evil people 12 inches tall.


14 posted on 07/21/2015 12:45:13 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (So America died not with a bang but a whimper.)
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To: Borges

Political activist = Liberal trouble-maker


15 posted on 07/21/2015 12:48:25 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: Borges

RIP.


16 posted on 07/21/2015 12:48:35 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: elcid1970
He was the U-boat second in command in “The Enemy Below” opposite Kurt Jurgens.

Always liked that movie. 'Steady on course 140, Mr. Ware...'

17 posted on 07/21/2015 12:54:45 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: Borges

Saw him in Sound of Music at the old Erlanger Theater in downtown Chicago when I was a kid (around 1960).


18 posted on 07/21/2015 12:55:34 PM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: Borges

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!”


19 posted on 07/21/2015 1:09:17 PM PDT by Buttons12
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I remember him mainly as playing Susan Ivanova’s rabbi in Babylon %.


20 posted on 07/21/2015 1:15:21 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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