Theodore Bikel
Birthday: 1924-05-02
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
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.
Movies
The African Queen
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...
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The Return of the King
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lo...
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, wh...
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Victory at Entebbe
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Enteb...
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Melba
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States....
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The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other....
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The Pride and the Passion
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander...
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I Bury the Living
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of ...
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200 Motels
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him whil...
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I Want to Live!
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a ...
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Above Us the Waves
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anc...
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The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private fo...
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My Side of the Mountain
Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley, a devotee of Thoreau, decides to leave the city to spend a sabbatical...
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Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Do...
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The Enemy Below
The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a pr...
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Shadow Conspiracy
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets hi...
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Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphr...
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Festival
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival,...
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Second Chances
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spiri...
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Darker Than Amber
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry...
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The Kidnappers
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in...
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Sands of the Kalahari
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plan...
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The Angry Hills
In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morr...
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Dark Tower
A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to tar...
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Murder on Flight 502
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airlin...
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See You in the Morning
Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a ...
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The Young Lovers
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian di...
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A Dog of Flanders
The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great clas...
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The Divided Heart
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is plac...
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Forbidden Cargo
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother an...
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Woman Obsessed
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the ...
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Crisis in the Kremlin
The sister-in-law of an assassin and a CIA agent team-up to save Gorbachev's life....
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The Little Ark
This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporar...
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A Day to Remember
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of th...
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The Vintage
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard...
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The Final Days
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency....
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Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last t...
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My Fair Lady
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her present...
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Fraulein
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin....
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The Stingiest Man in Town
An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind ...
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Killer by Night
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is usin...
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Moulin Rouge
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...
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Saint Joan
A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial o...
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Noon Wine
A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in sou...
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Betrayed
When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initial...
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The Love Lottery
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pres...
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immer...
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A Stoning in Fulham County
Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community....
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Crime and Punishment
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted ...
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Benefit of the Doubt
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With...
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Inside the Soviet Circus
Go behind the scenes at Moscow's Circus School and experience the magic and wonder of the performanc...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in...
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The Desperate Ones
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossibl...
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Flight from Vienna
A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the ...
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In the Month of Kislev
A wealthy arrogant merchant learns the true meaning of Hanukkah when he takes the family of a poor p...
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The Colditz Story
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "esc...
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The Dybbuk
The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young...
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Very Close Quarters
Depicts a communal flat in Russia where the Government randomly assigns 20 people to live in a one-b...
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Shattered
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Ju...
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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "My ...
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My Family Treasure
A US mother goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that th...
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The Little Traitor
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes ...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Łódź Ghetto
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
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Journey 4 Artists
Journey 4 Artists is a unique feature length documentary which demonstrates how the power of music h...
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Desperate Moment
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear hi...
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