RIP Theodore Bikel
RIP Theodore Bikel
#1RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 2:57pm
Such an icon of the theatre.
"when I’m on stage I see the abyss and have to overcome it by telling myself it’s only a play." - Helen Mirren
#2RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 2:59pm
Agreed, but I will always think of him as "that dreadful Hungarian."
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#3RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 4:02pm
He was very talented and really shined in some of his TV work especially a Twilight Zone episode entitled " 4 0 Clock". He played Oliver Crangle - the embodiment of a truly nasty person.
R.I.P. Capt Von Trapp.
Poster Emeritus
Updated On: 7/21/15 at 04:02 PM
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#4RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 4:09pm
Before I knew of him as an actor, he was the face and sound on my grandmother's records. I never saw him perform live - but he was always alive in her house and then in my life, too.
theaterfan15
Understudy Joined: 4/13/15
#5RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 5:13pm
We lost a true legend in the world of musical theatre. 
#6RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 5:22pm
I just recently saw him on a retro channel's airing of an old NAKED CITY episode. He skillfully portrayed a man who led two lives. One as a meek small businessman with an adoring son played by a young Keir Dullea. The other as a ruthless assassin shown massacring a boatload of people without a stitch of remorse. His performance was riveting and his final scene where he tells his son of his atrocities was almost too painful to watch. A wonderful actor who also was an accomplished folk singer. As a child I wrote him a fan letter when he was in SOM. He answered back with a lovely note. Rest in peace Mr. Bikel.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/theodore-bikel-fiddler-on-the-roof-star-dies-at-91-1201544826/
Updated On: 7/21/15 at 05:22 PM
#7RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 5:24pm
I saw him in Providence, RI in Fiddler in 1991. He was very good.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 5:50pm
Saw the Naked City episode. Another one had a totally unknown Dustin Hoffman and another had an equally unknown Robert Redford . They are great. Try and see Bikel in the Twilight Zone episode I mentioned.
Poster Emeritus
#9RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 9:17pm
He was great as Captain Von Trapp alongside Mary Martin in the original Broadway performance of "Sound of Music....." It's always sad to hear about the deaths of people who gave so much to the theatre.
A Director
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/07
#10RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/21/15 at 9:43pm
Theodore Bikel was a mench. His life in the theatre was only a small part of his rich and varied life.
#11RIP Theodore Bikel
Posted: 7/23/15 at 1:11am
Here are two songs from one of his lesser known ventures, 1966 flop POUSSE-CAFE:
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Updated On: 7/23/15 at 01:11 AM
