Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

139

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-05-02

Deathday

2015-07-21 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Also Known As

Theodore Meir Bikel
Теодор Байкел
تئودور بیکل

Theodore Bikel

Biography

Theodore Meir Bikel wa 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.

Known For

8.4%

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Sep 28, 1987

7.5%

My Fair Lady

Oct 21, 1964

7.5%

Knight Rider

Sep 26, 1982

7.4%

The African Queen

Jan 7, 1952

8.4%

The Twilight Zone

Oct 2, 1959

7.9%

Little House on the Prairie

Sep 11, 1974

8.1%

Columbo

Sep 15, 1971

7.4%

Law & Order

Sep 13, 1990

8.0%

Babylon 5

Jan 26, 1994

8.0%

Babylon 5

Jan 26, 1994

7.5%

Murder, She Wrote

Sep 30, 1984

7.5%

Murder, She Wrote

Sep 30, 1984

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Acting

2016

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)

2014

Journey 4 Artists as Self

2010

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen as Self

2007

The Little Traitor as Interrogator

2004

Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal as Himself

2002

Crime and Punishment as Captain Koch

1998		Second Chances as Dutch John Hathaway
1998		Babylon 5: In the Beginning as Lenonn

1997		Brooklyn South as Solomon Shuyler
1997		Shadow Conspiracy as Prof. Yuri Pochenko

1996

The Pretender as Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg

1995		More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' as Self / Zoltan Karpathy (as Theo Bikel)
1995		JAG as Farmer with Plane
1995		My Family Treasure as Grandpa Danieloff

1994		In the Month of Kislev as Narrator
1994		Babylon 5 as Rabbi Koslov
1994		Babylon 5 as Lenonn

1993

Benefit of the Doubt as Gideon Lee

1992

Crisis in the Kremlin as Leo

1991		Memories of Midnight as Napoleon Chotas
1991		Shattered as Dr. Berkus

1990

Law & Order as Sol Bregman

1989		Christine Cromwell
1989		The Final Days as Henry Kissinger
1989		The New Lassie
1989		See You in the Morning as Bronie
1989		Łódź Ghetto as (voice)

1988		A Stoning in Fulham County as Abe Moser
1988		Inside the Soviet Circus as Narrator
1988		The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as Self

1987		Dark Tower as Max Gold
1987		Star Trek: The Next Generation as Sergey Rozhenko
1987		Beauty and the Beast

1986		L.A. Law as Kurt Rubin
1986		Very Close Quarters

1985		Prince Jack as Georgi
1985		The Equalizer

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Rosanno Bertolucci
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Yuri Lermentov
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Inspector Van Horn
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Professor Harold Crenshaw
1984		Cover Up

1982		Knight Rider as Graham Deauville
1982		Hotel
1982		Night of 100 Stars as Self

1981		Falcon Crest as Marin Dimitrov
1981		The Fall Guy
1981		Dynasty

1980		Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
1980		The Return of the King as Aragorn (voice)

1978		The Stingiest Man in Town as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1978		The Amazing Spider-Man
1978		Loose Change as Tom Feiffer
1978		Fantasy Island as Ambassador Eric Soro

1977

The San Pedro Beach Bums

1976		Victory at Entebbe as Yakov Shlomo
1976		Charlie's Angels as Prof. Wycinski

1975		Murder on Flight 502 as Otto Gruenwaldt
1975		Medical Story as Danziger

1974		Police Woman
1974		Little House on the Prairie

1972		The Little Ark as The Captain
1972		Killer by Night as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold

1971		Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels as Self
1971		200 Motels as Rance Muhammitz / Dave
1971		Columbo as Oliver Brandt
1971		Cannon
1971		All in the Family as Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer

1970

Darker Than Amber as Meyer

1969

My Side of the Mountain as Bando

1968		The Mod Squad
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Prof. Erich Stoss
1968		The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968		Sweet November as Alonzo

1967		Saint Joan as Robert de Baudricourt
1967		The Diary of Anne Frank as Hans Van Daan
1967		Festival as Self
1967		Ironside
1967		The Desperate Ones as Kisielev

1966		Noon Wine as Homer T. Hatch
1966		Mission: Impossible as General Casimir Zepke
1966		ABC Stage 67 as Homer T. Hatch
1966		The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! as The Russian captain

1965

Sands of the Kalahari as Bondrechai

1964		My Fair Lady as Zoltan Karpathy
1964		Another World
1964		The Hollywood Palace as Self - Folk Singer

1963		Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963		Burke's Law as Vic Bates
1963		Burke's Law as Senor Manfred Gonzales
1963		Tonight in Person as Self

1962		Combat! as Francois Perrault
1962		Sam Benedict

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Mahmel Homatka
1961		The Dick Powell Show as Captain Bellini
1961		The Dick Powell Show as Nicholas Simonakis

1960		Route 66
1960		The Dybbuk as Sender

1959		The Twilight Zone as Oliver Crangle
1959		The Blue Angel as Klepert
1959		The Angry Hills as Dimitrios Tassos
1959		Woman Obsessed as Dr. R. W. Gibbs
1959		A Dog of Flanders as Piet van Gelder
1959		Rawhide as Pence

1958		I Want to Live! as Carl G.G. Palmberg
1958		Naked City as Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski
1958		Naked City as Dr. Stanley Wilford
1958		The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
1958		I Bury the Living as Andy McKee
1958		Fraulein as Col. Dimitri Bucaron

1957		The Enemy Below as Heinie Schwaffer
1957		DuPont Show of the Month as Capt. Alvarado
1957		The Pride and the Passion as General Jouvet
1957		The Vintage as Eduardo Uribari

1956

Flight from Vienna as Col. Sandor Kosice

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sergeant Ottermole
1955		Gunsmoke as Martin Kellums
1955		Above Us the Waves as German Officer
1955		The Colditz Story as Vandy

1954		The Divided Heart as Josip
1954		Climax! as Martin Humphries
1954		Betrayed as German Sergeant (uncredited)
1954		The Young Lovers as Joseph
1954		Forbidden Cargo as Max
1954		The Love Lottery as Parsimonious

1953		The Kidnappers as Dr. Willem Bloem
1953		A Day to Remember as Henri Dubot
1953		Melba as Paul Brotha
1953		Never Let Me Go as Lieutenant

1952		Moulin Rouge as King Milo IV of Serbia
1952		The African Queen as First Officer

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Uncle Lajos
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as De Baudricourt

1948		Studio One as Machek
1948		Studio One as Henri Blanchard
1948		Studio One as Julius Caesar
1948		Studio One as Grossman
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self