Theodore Meir Bikel

Theodore Meir Bikel was born on the 2^nd May 1924. He is an Austrian actor, a folk musician and a composer. He appeared for the first time in The African Queen in the year 1951 and was nominated for the award of the Academy for the supporting role he played as Sherriff Max Muller in the Defiant Onesd in the year 1958.

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Theodore Meir Bikel is the President of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America and was president of Actors' Equity in the later part of the 1970s and early part of the 1980s. He works as the Chair of Board of Directors of Partners for Progressive Isreal, where he also teaches.

Theodore Meir Bikel’s autobiography called Theo was published in the year 1995.

Theodore Meir Bikel has been married for the total of 4 times. He married Ofra Ichilov in the year 1942 and they divorced in the next year. He married his second wife called Rita Weinberg Call in the year 1967 and they had two children together and they divorced in the year 2008. He got married the conductor Tamara Brooks later in that year and she died in the 2012. He married Aimee Ginsburg on the 29^th December 2013.

Discography

Ø  Israeli Folk Songs (1955), Elektra

Ø  An Actor’s Holiday (1958), Elektra

Ø  Folk Songs of Israel (1958), Elektra

Ø  A Young Man and a Maid (with Cynthia Gooding) (1958), Elektra

Ø  Theodore Bikel Sings Jewish Folk Songs (1958), Elektra

Ø  Songs of a Russian Gypsy (1958), Elektra

Ø  Folk Songs from Just about Everywhere (with Geula Gill) (1959), Elektra

Ø  More Jewish Folk Songs (1959), Elektra

Ø  Bravo Bikel! (Live From Carnegie Hall) (1959), Elektra

Ø  Songs of Russia Old and New (1960), Elektra

Ø  The Sound of Music (Original Broadway Cast) (1960), Columbia Records

Ø  From Bondage to Freedom (1961), Elektra

Ø  A Harvest of Israeli Folk Songs (1962), Elektra

Ø  The Poetry and Prophesy of The Old Testament (1962), Elektra

Ø  The Best of Bikel (1962), Elektra

Ø  Theodore Bikel on Tour (1963), Elektra

Ø  A Folksinger’s Choice (1964), Elektra

Ø  The King and I (1964), Columbia Records Yiddish Theatre and Folk Songs (1967), Elektra

Ø  Songs of the Earth (with The Pennywhistlers) (1967), Elektra

Ø  Theodore Bikel Is Tevye (1968), Elektra

Ø  A New Day (1970), Reprise Records

Ø  Silent No More (Soviet Jewish Underground) (1972), Star Records

Ø  Theodore Bikel for the Young (1973), Peter Pan Records

Ø  Theodore Bikel Sings Jewish Holiday Songs (1987)

Ø  Yiddish Theatre & Folk Songs (CD reissue, 1991), Bainbridge Records

Ø  A Passover Story (1991), Western Wind

Ø  A Chanukkah Story (1992), Western Wind

Ø  Songs of a Russian Gypsy (CD reissue, 1992), Bainbridge Records

Ø  Theodore Bikel Sings Jewish Folk Songs (CD reissue, 1992), Bainbridge Records

Ø  Theodore Bikel Sings More Jewish Folk Songs (CD reissue, 1992) Bainbridge Records

Ø  Rise up and Fight–Songs of Jewish Partisans (1996), Holocaust Museum

Ø  A Taste of Passover (1998), Rounder Records

Ø  A Taste of Chanukkah (2000), Rounder Records

Ø  In My Own Lifetime (2006), Jewish Music Group

Ø  Our Song (with Alberto Mizrahi) (2007), Opus Magica Musica

Filmography

Ø  The African Queen (1951)

Ø  Moulin Rouge (1952)

Ø  Never Let Me Go (1953)

Ø  A Day to Remember (1953)

Ø  The Little Kidnappers (1953)

Ø  The Love Lottery (1954)

Ø  Betrayed (1954) (uncredited)

Ø  The Divided Heart (1954)

Ø  The Young Lovers (1954)

Ø  The Colditz Story (1955)

Ø  Above Us the Waves (1955)

Ø  The Vintage (1957)

Ø  The Pride and the Passion (1957)

Ø  The Enemy Below (1957)

Ø  Fräulein (1958)

Ø  I Bury the Living (1958)

Ø  The Defiant Ones (1958)

Ø  I Want to Live! (1958)

Ø  Woman Obsessed (1959)

Ø  The Angry Hills (1959)

Ø  The Blue Angel (1959)

Ø  A Dog of Flanders (1960)

Ø  My Fair Lady (1964)

Ø  Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

Ø  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)

Ø  Sweet November (1968)

Ø  My Side of the Mountain (1969)

Ø  Darker than Amber as Meyer (1970)

Ø  200 Motels (1971)

Ø  Victory at Entebbe (1976) (TV)

Ø  Columbo: The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case (1977) (TV)

Ø  The Stingiest Man In Town (1978) (TV) (voice)

Ø  The Return of the King (1980) (voice)

Ø  The Final Days (1989) (TV)

Ø  Shattered (1991)

Ø  Shadow Conspiracy (1996)

Ø  Crime and Punishment (2002)

Decorations and awards

Ø  1959 Academy Award nomination for Flucht in Ketten (The Defiant Ones)

Ø  1992 Honorary Doctorate of the University of Hartford

Ø  1997 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture

Ø  2008 Golden Rathausmann of Vienna (November 27)

Ø  2009 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (November 15)