Bikel was a guest star on many popular television series.
He recalls, "I would go out sometimes between matinee and evening performances, go to a rally and speak from a flat-bed truck, and then come back to the theater." [34], At the 1977 AFL–CIO Convention, Bikel welcomed the Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky upon his release from the Soviet Union. Your contribution is much appreciated! In 1959, he co-founded the Newport Folk Festival and created the role of Captain von Trapp opposite Mary Martin as Maria in the original Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
He married conductor Tamara Brooks later that year. He married Ofra Ichilov in 1942. In me there remains a small, still voice that asks whether I can ever fully acquit myself in my own mind. Its popularity led to the two opening a second club, Cosmo Alley, which in addition to folk music presented poets such as Maya Angelou and comics including Lenny Bruce. The Austrian-born Bikel was noted for the diversity of the roles he played, from a Scottish police officer to a Russian submarine skipper, Jewish refugee, Dutch sea captain and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In the early 1990s, he appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the episode "Family", playing Sergey Rozhenko, the Belarusian-born adoptive father of Worf.
Josef Bikel's information is not available now. She replied that she did not need to: "Go and do it," she said. Following the German annexation of Austria in 1938, Bikel's family fled to Mandatory Palestine, where his father's contacts helped the family obtain British passports.
In 1959, he created the role of Captain von Trapp in the original production of The Sound of Music, which earned him a second Tony nomination.
They divorced in 2008. On one occasion, Seeger became infuriated and wished he had an ax to cut the electrical cables because of the poor audio during Bob Dylan's legendary performance accompanied by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Birthday: May 2, 1924Date of Death: July 21, 2015Age at Death: 91. Celebrities and Notable People Who Have Had Coronavirus. Theodore Bikel was born into a Jewish family[3] in Vienna, Austria, the son of Miriam (née Riegler) and Josef Bikel,[4] from Bukovina. Election Day could turn into "Election Week" with rise in mail ballots. His second marriage was in 1967 to Rita Weinberg Call with whom he had two children. Songs of Jewish Partisans - Amazon.com Music", "A Taste of Passover: Theodore Bikel: Movies & TV", "Various Artists - A Taste of Chanukah - Amazon.com Music", "Freedman Catalogue lookup: work Theodore Bikel/Alberto Mizrahi / Our Song", Part 1 of 2 of interview by Jerry Williams on WMEX Radio in Boston hours after the Kennedy Assassination, Part 2 of 2 of interview by Jerry Williams on WMEX Radio in Boston hours after the Kennedy Assassination, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore_Bikel&oldid=977813771, Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United States after the Anschluss, Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class, Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Short description is different from Wikidata, Internet Off-Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata, Turner Classic Movies person ID same as Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 1997 – Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2008 – Golden Rathausmann of Vienna (27 November), 2014 – Lifetime Achievement Award from Rhode Island International Film Festival (August), "Song for Dying" (1965 Gunsmoke, TV Series), This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 04:22. [9] He was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. For his portrayal of Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[1]. von Trapp in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music," playing opposite Mary Martin as Maria. [18] In 2013, Bikel starred in Journey 4 Artists, a documentary which celebrates the power of music and religious diversity. Theodore Meir Bikel (/bɪˈkɛl/ bih-KEL; 2 May 1924 – 21 July 2015) was an Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist. A prolific recording artist, Bikel also helped found the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger in 1959, an event that has drawn hundreds of thousands of fans to Rhode Island over the decades and launched the careers of many notable musicians. [14][17] In 2012, Bikel played the title role in Visiting Mr. Green with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in Toronto, Ontario.
[9] He was president of Actors' Equity from 1977 to 1982 in which office he supported human rights causes. [9], Bikel did not return to live in Israel nor did he take part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. [9], In movies, he played a German officer in The African Queen (1951) and The Enemy Below (1957), a Southern sheriff in The Defiant Ones, and a Russian submarine captain in the comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). Theodore Bikel died of undisclosed natural causes on July 21, 2015 in Los Angeles. [12] However, he graduated from supporting actor and understudy to star opposite the director's wife, Vivien Leigh, with a sudden unplanned performance when a co-star, playing the role of Mitch, came down with a case of flu.
As a folk musician, Bikel made his concert debut in 1956 at the Carnegie Recital Hall, and went on to write, perform and translate lyrics to music for the next several decades.