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.
Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1959 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actor in a Play · 1958 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
The Twilight Zone
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Columbo
Babylon 5
The Diary of Anne Frank
Fraulein
Little House on the Prairie
All in the Family
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Combat!
Second Chances
The Fall Guy
Mission: Impossible
Murder, She Wrote
Knight Rider
My Fair Lady
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
The Pretender
The African Queen
Beauty and the Beast
JAG
Law & Order
Hawaii Five-O
Rawhide
L.A. Law
The Defiant Ones
The Enemy Below
Sweet November
Noon Wine
The Final Days
Ironside
I Want to Live!
My Side of the Mountain
The Dick Cavett Show
The Colditz Story
The Ed Sullivan Show
Charlie's Angels
Route 66
Gunsmoke
Wagon Train
Moulin Rouge
Dynasty
Fantasy Island
A Dog of Flanders
Police Woman
Darker Than Amber
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
Sands of the Kalahari
The Little Traitor
I Bury the Living