Theodore Bikel was a co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival. He is also an accomplished translator of song lyrics. Theodore Bikel has recorded 20 record albums mostly for the Elektra label in addition to a few releases on Columbia, Peter Pan, and Reprise. Emmy Award in 1988 for his role on public television as the 82-year old Harris Newmark. His roles on TV cover an amazing range of characterizations: from a Scottish policeman in Alfred Hitchcock Presents to a Mad Bomber, a South African Boer on the hunt in New York (Equalizer) to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, to Henry Kissinger in The Final Days and the role which earned him his L.A. Theodore Bikel's television career in the United States spans some 35 years.
After having played the role of Tevye over 2,000 times since 1967 Bikel's Tevye continues to garner the highest praise from audiences and critics nation-wide whenever he repeats the role. Nationally he starred in a number of other plays, including tours of Zorba and Fiddler on the Roof. In London he won acclaim playing the Russian Colonel in Ustinov's The Love Of Four Colonels and on Broadway his roster of memorable performances includes Tonight In Samarkand, The Rope Dancers, The Lark and the original Broadway production of The Sound Of Music in which he created the role of Baron von Trapp. Bikel soon took over the second male lead, Mitch, in the play.įrom Streetcar on, Theodore Bikel's career has been illuminated by superior stage and screen portrayals. Sir Laurence Olivier was so impressed with Bikel's performance in several small London theatre productions that he offered him a role in his production of A Streetcar Named Desire starring Vivien Leigh. It was also at this time that he began to develop a serious interest in the guitar and folk music.īut he was first to make his mark as an actor. In 1946 Bikel entered London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which he graduated with honors two years later. Fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish, and German with a respectable command of English and French, he intended to study and eventually teach comparative linguistics.
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