Theodore Bikel

Known for: Acting
Born: May 2, 1924, Vienna, Austria
Died: July 21, 2015
Movies: 72

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.5

My Fair Lady

1964

7.3

The African Queen

1952

7.2

The Defiant Ones

1958

6.2

Shattered

1991

6.4

The Return of the King

1980

7.2

The Enemy Below

1957

7.1

Babylon 5: In the Beginning

1998

6.5

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

1966

7.0

I Want to Live!

1958

6.6

Moulin Rouge

1952

Filmography

2016	Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words	Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
2014	Journey 4 Artists	Self
2010	Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen	Self
2009	The Little Traitor	Interrogator
2004	Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal	Himself
2002	Crime and Punishment	Captain Koch
1998	Second Chances	Dutch John Hathaway
1998	Babylon 5: In the Beginning	Lenonn
1997	Shadow Conspiracy	Prof. Yuri Pochenko
1995	More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'	Self / Zoltan Karpathy
1995	My Family Treasure	Grandpa Danieloff
1994	In the Month of Kislev	Narrator
1993	Benefit of the Doubt	Gideon Lee
1992	Crisis in the Kremlin	Leo
1991	Shattered	Dr. Berkus
1989	The Final Days	Henry Kissinger
1989	See You in the Morning	Bronie
1989	Łódź Ghetto	(voice)
1988	A Stoning in Fulham County	Abe Moser
1988	Inside the Soviet Circus	Narrator
1988	The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels	Self
1987	Dark Tower	Max Gold
1986	Very Close Quarters	Victor
1985	Prince Jack	Georgi
1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self
1980	Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere	Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
1980	The Return of the King	Aragorn (voice)
1978	The Stingiest Man in Town	Marley's Ghost (voice)
1976	Victory at Entebbe	Yakov Shlomo
1975	Murder on Flight 502	Otto Gruenwaldt
1972	The Little Ark	The Captain
1972	Killer by Night	Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
1971	The Making of 200 Motels	Self
1971	200 Motels	Rance Muhammitz / Dave
1970	Darker Than Amber	Meyer
1969	My Side of the Mountain	Bando
1968	Sweet November	Alonzo
1967	Saint Joan	Robert de Baudricourt
1967	The Diary of Anne Frank	Hans Van Daan
1967	Festival	Self
1967	The Desperate Ones	Kisielev
1966	Noon Wine	Homer T. Hatch
1966	The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!	The Russian captain
1965	Sands of the Kalahari	Bondrechai
1964	My Fair Lady	Zoltan Karpathy
1960	The Dybbuk	Sender
1960	A Dog of Flanders	Piet van Gelder
1959	The Blue Angel	Klepert
1959	The Angry Hills	Dimitrios Tassos
1959	Woman Obsessed	Dr. R. W. Gibbs
1958	I Want to Live!	Carl G.G. Palmberg
1958	The Defiant Ones	Sheriff Max Muller
1958	I Bury the Living	Andy McKee
1958	Fraulein	Col. Dimitri Bucaron
1957	The Enemy Below	Heinie Schwaffer
1957	The Pride and the Passion	General Jouvet
1957	The Vintage	Eduardo Uribari
1956	Flight from Vienna	Col. Sandor Kosice
1955	Above Us the Waves	German Officer
1955	The Colditz Story	Vandy
1954	The Divided Heart	Josip
1954	Betrayed	German Sergeant (uncredited)
1954	The Young Lovers	Joseph
1954	Forbidden Cargo	Max
1954	The Love Lottery	Parsimonious
1953	The Kidnappers	Dr. Willem Bloem
1953	A Day to Remember	Henri Dubot
1953	Melba	Paul Brotha
1953	Never Let Me Go	Lieutenant
1953	Desperate Moment	Anton
1952	Moulin Rouge	King Milo IV of Serbia
1952	The African Queen	First Officer

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