Theodore Bikel

Known for: Acting

Born: 1924-05-02 – 2015-07-21 (aged 91)

From: Vienna, Austria

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.

Filmography (133)

MOVIE★ 7.4
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016
as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
MOVIE
Journey 4 Artists
2014
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Little Traitor
2009
as Interrogator
MOVIE★ 7.0
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
as Himself
MOVIE★ 5.2
Crime and Punishment
2002
as Captain Koch
MOVIE★ 7.7
Second Chances
1998
as Dutch John Hathaway
MOVIE★ 7.1
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1998
as Lenonn
TV★ 9.6
Brooklyn South
1997
as Solomon Shuyler
MOVIE★ 5.0
Shadow Conspiracy
1997
as Prof. Yuri Pochenko
TV★ 7.4
The Pretender
1996
as Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg
MOVIE★ 7.5
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
1995
as Self / Zoltan Karpathy
TV★ 7.3
JAG
1995
as Farmer with Plane
MOVIE★ 8.0
My Family Treasure
1995
as Grandpa Danieloff
MOVIE
In the Month of Kislev
1994
as Narrator
TV★ 8.0
Babylon 5
1994
as Rabbi Koslov
MOVIE★ 4.8
Benefit of the Doubt
1993
as Gideon Lee
MOVIE★ 6.0
Crisis in the Kremlin
1992
as Leo
TV★ 4.8
Memories of Midnight
1991
as Napoleon Chotas
MOVIE★ 6.1
Shattered
1991
as Dr. Berkus
TV★ 7.3
Law & Order
1990
as Sol Bregman
TV★ 7.8
Christine Cromwell
1989
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Final Days
1989
as Henry Kissinger
TV★ 7.1
The New Lassie
1989
MOVIE★ 6.0
See You in the Morning
1989
as Bronie
MOVIE★ 8.0
Łódź Ghetto
1989
as (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.6
A Stoning in Fulham County
1988
as Abe Moser
MOVIE
Inside the Soviet Circus
1988
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.3
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988
as Self
MOVIE★ 3.9
Dark Tower
1987
as Max Gold
TV★ 8.4
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Sergey Rozhenko
TV★ 7.4
Beauty and the Beast
1987
as Eli
TV★ 7.1
L.A. Law
1986
as Kurt Rubin
MOVIE★ 9.0
Very Close Quarters
1986
as Victor
MOVIE★ 9.0
Prince Jack
1985
as Georgi
TV★ 7.1
The Equalizer
1985
TV★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Rosanno Bertolucci
TV★ 6.9
Cover Up
1984
TV★ 5.3
Glitter
1984
TV★ 7.5
Knight Rider
1982
as Graham Deauville
TV★ 6.8
Hotel
1982
MOVIE★ 5.8
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
TV★ 5.6
Falcon Crest
1981
as Marin Dimitrov
TV★ 7.6
The Fall Guy
1981
TV★ 6.5
Dynasty
1981
MOVIE
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
1980
as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Return of the King
1980
as Aragorn (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Stingiest Man in Town
1978
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
TV★ 6.4
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
TV★ 6.5
Fantasy Island
1978
as Ambassador Eric Soro
TV★ 5.5
The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977
TV★ 6.0
Testimony of Two Men
1977
as Peter Heger
MOVIE★ 5.1
Victory at Entebbe
1976
as Yakov Shlomo
TV★ 6.7
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Prof. Wycinski
MOVIE★ 5.9
Murder on Flight 502
1975
as Otto Gruenwaldt
TV★ 5.0
Medical Story
1975
as Danziger
TV★ 6.4
Police Woman
1974
TV★ 7.9
Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Yuli Pyatakov
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Little Ark
1972
as The Captain
MOVIE★ 7.0
Killer by Night
1972
as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
MOVIE
The Making of 200 Motels
1971
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.2
200 Motels
1971
as Rance Muhammitz / Dave
TV★ 8.1
Columbo
1971
as Oliver Brandt
TV★ 6.7
Cannon
1971
TV★ 7.8
All in the Family
1971
as Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer
MOVIE★ 6.4
Darker Than Amber
1970
as Meyer
MOVIE★ 6.8
My Side of the Mountain
1969
as Bando
TV★ 6.1
The Mod Squad
1968
TV★ 7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Prof. Erich Stoss
TV★ 6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MOVIE★ 7.0
Sweet November
1968
as Alonzo
MOVIE★ 10.0
Saint Joan
1967
as Robert de Baudricourt
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
as Hans Van Daan
MOVIE★ 6.0
Festival
1967
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Desperate Ones
1967
as Kisielev
TV★ 6.9
Ironside
1967
MOVIE★ 7.0
Noon Wine
1966
as Homer T. Hatch
TV★ 7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966
as General Casimir Zepke
TV★ 6.8
ABC Stage 67
1966
as Homer T. Hatch
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966
as The Russian captain
MOVIE★ 6.3
Sands of the Kalahari
1965
as Bondrechai
MOVIE★ 7.5
My Fair Lady
1964
as Zoltan Karpathy
TV★ 5.5
Another World
1964
TV★ 5.0
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self - Folk Singer
TV★ 5.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
TV★ 6.3
Burke's Law
1963
as Vic Bates
TV★ 7.0
Tonight in Person
1963
as Self
TV★ 7.8
Combat!
1962
as Francois Perrault
TV★ 6.7
Sam Benedict
1962
TV★ 5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TV★ 5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. Mahmel Homatka
TV★ 5.7
The Dick Powell Show
1961
as Captain Bellini
TV★ 6.7
Route 66
1960
MOVIE
The Dybbuk
1960
as Sender
TV★ 8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Oliver Crangle
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Blue Angel
1959
as Klepert
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Angry Hills
1959
as Dimitrios Tassos
MOVIE★ 6.6
Woman Obsessed
1959
as Dr. R. W. Gibbs
MOVIE★ 6.5
A Dog of Flanders
1959
as Piet van Gelder
TV★ 7.2
Rawhide
1959
as Pence
MOVIE★ 6.9
I Want to Live!
1958
as Carl G.G. Palmberg
TV★ 5.7
Naked City
1958
as Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Defiant Ones
1958
as Sheriff Max Muller
MOVIE★ 6.2
I Bury the Living
1958
as Andy McKee
MOVIE★ 8.0
Fraulein
1958
as Col. Dimitri Bucaron
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Enemy Below
1957
as Heinie Schwaffer
TV★ 7.4
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Capt. Alvarado
TV★ 6.6
Wagon Train
1957
as Dr. Denker
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Pride and the Passion
1957
as General Jouvet
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Vintage
1957
as Eduardo Uribari
MOVIE★ 6.0
Flight from Vienna
1956
as Col. Sandor Kosice
TV★ 7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Sergeant Ottermole
TV
Strange Experiences
1955
as Man
TV★ 6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
as Martin Kellums
MOVIE★ 6.2
Above Us the Waves
1955
as German Officer
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Colditz Story
1955
as Vandy
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Divided Heart
1954
as Josip
TV★ 3.8
Climax!
1954
as Martin Humphries
MOVIE★ 5.8
Betrayed
1954
as German Sergeant (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Young Lovers
1954
as Joseph
MOVIE★ 6.9
Forbidden Cargo
1954
as Max
MOVIE★ 5.1
The Love Lottery
1954
as Parsimonious
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Kidnappers
1953
as Dr. Willem Bloem
MOVIE★ 7.4
A Day to Remember
1953
as Henri Dubot
MOVIE★ 6.0
Melba
1953
as Paul Brotha
MOVIE★ 5.9
Never Let Me Go
1953
as Lieutenant
MOVIE★ 6.5
Desperate Moment
1953
as Anton
MOVIE★ 6.6
Moulin Rouge
1952
as King Milo IV of Serbia
MOVIE★ 7.4
The African Queen
1952
as First Officer
TV★ 8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Uncle Lajos
TV★ 5.4
Studio One
1948
as Machek
TV★ 6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
TV★ 7.8
Kraft Television Theatre
1947