Theodore Bikel
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.
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Acting History
2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
2014Journey 4 Artists as Self
2010Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen as Self
2007The Little Traitor as Interrogator
2004Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal as Himself
2002Crime and Punishment as Captain Koch
1998Second Chances as Dutch John Hathaway
1998Babylon 5: In the Beginning as Lenonn
1997Brooklyn South as Solomon Shuyler
1997Shadow Conspiracy as Prof. Yuri Pochenko
1996The Pretender as Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg
1995More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' as Self / Zoltan Karpathy (as Theo Bikel)
1995JAG as Farmer with Plane
1995My Family Treasure as Grandpa Danieloff
1994In the Month of Kislev as Narrator
1994Babylon 5 as Rabbi Koslov
1993Benefit of the Doubt as Gideon Lee
1992Crisis in the Kremlin as Leo
1991Memories of Midnight as Napoleon Chotas
1991Shattered as Dr. Berkus
1990Law & Order as Sol Bregman
1989Christine Cromwell
1989The Final Days as Henry Kissinger
1989The New Lassie
1989See You in the Morning as Bronie
1989Łódź Ghetto as (voice)
1988A Stoning in Fulham County as Abe Moser
1988Inside the Soviet Circus as Narrator
1988The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as Self
1987Dark Tower as Max Gold
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation as Sergey Rozhenko
1987Beauty and the Beast
1986L.A. Law as Kurt Rubin
1986Very Close Quarters
1985Prince Jack as Georgi
1985The Equalizer
1984Murder, She Wrote as Rosanno Bertolucci
1984Murder, She Wrote as Yuri Lermentov
1984Murder, She Wrote as Inspector Van Horn
1984Murder, She Wrote as Professor Harold Crenshaw
1984Cover Up
1984Glitter
1982Knight Rider as Graham Deauville
1982Hotel
1982Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981Falcon Crest as Marin Dimitrov
1981The Fall Guy
1981Dynasty
1980Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
1980The Return of the King as Aragorn (voice)
1978The Stingiest Man in Town as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1978The Amazing Spider-Man
1978Loose Change as Tom Feiffer
1978Fantasy Island as Ambassador Eric Soro
1977The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977Testimony of Two Men as Peter Heger
1976Victory at Entebbe as Yakov Shlomo
1976Charlie's Angels as Prof. Wycinski
1975Murder on Flight 502 as Otto Gruenwaldt
1975Medical Story as Danziger
1974Police Woman
1974Little House on the Prairie
1972The Little Ark as The Captain
1972Killer by Night as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
1971Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels as Self
1971200 Motels as Rance Muhammitz / Dave
1971Columbo as Oliver Brandt
1971Cannon
1971All in the Family as Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer
1970Darker Than Amber as Meyer
1969My Side of the Mountain as Bando
1968The Mod Squad
1968Hawaii Five-O as Prof. Erich Stoss
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968Sweet November as Alonzo
1967Saint Joan as Robert de Baudricourt
1967The Diary of Anne Frank as Hans Van Daan
1967Festival as Self
1967The Desperate Ones as Kisielev
1967Ironside
1966Noon Wine as Homer T. Hatch
1966Mission: Impossible as General Casimir Zepke
1966ABC Stage 67 as Homer T. Hatch
1966The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! as The Russian captain
1965Sands of the Kalahari as Bondrechai
1964My Fair Lady as Zoltan Karpathy
1964Another World
1964The Hollywood Palace as Self - Folk Singer
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963Burke's Law as Vic Bates
1963Burke's Law as Senor Manfred Gonzales
1963Tonight in Person as Self
1962Combat! as Francois Perrault
1962Sam Benedict
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961Dr. Kildare as Dr. Mahmel Homatka
1961The Dick Powell Show as Captain Bellini
1961The Dick Powell Show as Nicholas Simonakis
1960Route 66
1960The Dybbuk as Sender
1959The Twilight Zone as Oliver Crangle
1959The Blue Angel as Klepert
1959The Angry Hills as Dimitrios Tassos
1959Woman Obsessed as Dr. R. W. Gibbs
1959A Dog of Flanders as Piet van Gelder
1959Rawhide as Pence
1958I Want to Live! as Carl G.G. Palmberg
1958Naked City as Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski
1958Naked City as Dr. Stanley Wilford
1958The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
1958I Bury the Living as Andy McKee
1958Fraulein as Col. Dimitri Bucaron
1957The Enemy Below as Heinie Schwaffer
1957DuPont Show of the Month as Capt. Alvarado
1957The Pride and the Passion as General Jouvet
1957The Vintage as Eduardo Uribari
1956Flight from Vienna as Col. Sandor Kosice
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sergeant Ottermole
1955Strange Experiences as Man
1955Gunsmoke as Martin Kellums
1955Above Us the Waves as German Officer
1955The Colditz Story as Vandy
1954The Divided Heart as Josip
1954Climax! as Martin Humphries
1954Betrayed as German Sergeant (uncredited)
1954The Young Lovers as Joseph
1954Forbidden Cargo as Max
1954The Love Lottery as Parsimonious
1953The Kidnappers as Dr. Willem Bloem
1953A Day to Remember as Henri Dubot
1953Melba as Paul Brotha
1953Never Let Me Go as Lieutenant
1953Desperate Moment as Anton
1952Moulin Rouge as King Milo IV of Serbia
1952The African Queen as First Officer
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Uncle Lajos
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as De Baudricourt
1948Studio One as Machek
1948Studio One as Henri Blanchard
1948Studio One as Julius Caesar
1948Studio One as Grossman
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1947Kraft Television Theatre