Theodore Bikel
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4412 |
| Birthday | 1924-05-02 |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Also Known As | Theodore Meir Bikel, Теодор Байкел, تئودور بیکل, Theodor Meir Bikel, |
1952
The African Queen
7.364/1050
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to g...
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The African Queen
1980
The Return of the King
6.412/217
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
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The Return of the King
1998
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
7.119/172
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent wa...
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1976
Victory at Entebbe
5.12/25
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in...
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Victory at Entebbe
1953
Melba
6/2
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
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Melba
1958
The Defiant Ones
7.12/316
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
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The Defiant Ones
1957
The Pride and the Passion
6.07/43
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order...
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The Pride and the Passion
1966
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
6.42/131
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov,...
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1958
I Bury the Living
6.167/72
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain ma...
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I Bury the Living
1971
200 Motels
5.266/47
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story...
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200 Motels
1958
I Want to Live!
6.94/116
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
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I Want to Live!
1955
Above Us the Waves
6.167/33
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to at...
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Above Us the Waves
1988
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
7.333/3
A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-t...
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The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1969
My Side of the Mountain
6.75/26
Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley, a devotee of Thoreau, decides to leave the city to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it a...
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My Side of the Mountain
1980
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
0/0
Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions,...
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Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
1957
The Enemy Below
7.1/209
The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
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The Enemy Below
1971
The Making of 200 Motels
0/0
Directed by Roelof Kiers for Dutch television, this documentary follows Frank Zappa at home and during the making of 200 Motels. Combining interviews...
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The Making of 200 Motels
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
5.029/102
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenk...
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Shadow Conspiracy
2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
7/12
The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real...
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Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
1967
Festival
5.958/12
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul...
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Festival
1998
Second Chances
7.725/20
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
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Second Chances
1953
Never Let Me Go
5.868/19
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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Never Let Me Go
1970
Darker Than Amber
6.441/17
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he jo...
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Darker Than Amber
1953
The Kidnappers
6.667/15
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and canta...
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The Kidnappers
1965
Sands of the Kalahari
6.3/35
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
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Sands of the Kalahari
1968
Sweet November
7.045/11
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
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Sweet November
1959
The Angry Hills
4.5/19
In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for Lo...
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The Angry Hills
1987
Dark Tower
3.962/26
An architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper.
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Dark Tower
1975
Murder on Flight 502
5.912/17
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
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Murder on Flight 502
1989
See You in the Morning
6/19
Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young wi...
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See You in the Morning
1954
The Young Lovers
6.143/7
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective coun...
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The Young Lovers
1959
A Dog of Flanders
6.5/11
The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great classical painter appears shattered when his loving gr...
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A Dog of Flanders
1954
The Divided Heart
6.75/8
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopte...
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The Divided Heart
1954
Forbidden Cargo
6.875/8
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
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Forbidden Cargo
1959
Woman Obsessed
6.583/12
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drift...
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Woman Obsessed
1992
Crisis in the Kremlin
6/3
The sister-in-law of an assassin and a CIA agent team-up to save Gorbachev's life.
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Crisis in the Kremlin
1972
The Little Ark
6.167/6
This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporarily lose their father and mother during the great...
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The Little Ark
1953
A Day to Remember
7.417/6
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get i...
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A Day to Remember
1957
The Vintage
6/4
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence, France.
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The Vintage
1989
The Final Days
6.857/7
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
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The Final Days
2004
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
7/1
In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.
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Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
1959
The Blue Angel
5.273/11
Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic.
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The Blue Angel
1964
My Fair Lady
7.505/1419
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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My Fair Lady
1958
Fraulein
8/2
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
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Fraulein
1978
The Stingiest Man in Town
5.529/17
An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever...
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The Stingiest Man in Town
1972
Killer by Night
7/1
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
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Killer by Night
1952
Moulin Rouge
6.661/109
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women wh...
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Moulin Rouge
1967
Saint Joan
10/1
A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her...
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Saint Joan
1966
Noon Wine
7/5
A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah direct...
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Noon Wine
1985
Prince Jack
9/1
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
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Prince Jack
1954
Betrayed
5.795/22
When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven...
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Betrayed
1954
The Love Lottery
5.114/22
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he rel...
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The Love Lottery
2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
7.389/27
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing tw...
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
1988
A Stoning in Fulham County
5.909/11
Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.
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A Stoning in Fulham County
2002
Crime and Punishment
5.211/19
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...
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Crime and Punishment
1993
Benefit of the Doubt
4.813/16
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns...
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Benefit of the Doubt
1988
Inside the Soviet Circus
0/0
Go behind the scenes at Moscow's Circus School and experience the magic and wonder of the performances that delight millions. See lion tamers risk lif...
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Inside the Soviet Circus
1967
The Diary of Anne Frank
8/2
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
The Desperate Ones
8/1
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their...
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The Desperate Ones
1956
Flight from Vienna
6/4
A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.
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Flight from Vienna
1994
In the Month of Kislev
0/0
A wealthy arrogant merchant learns the true meaning of Hanukkah when he takes the family of a poor peddler to court for savoring the smell of his wife...
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In the Month of Kislev
1955
The Colditz Story
6.845/58
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This...
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The Colditz Story
1960
The Dybbuk
0/0
The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a y...
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The Dybbuk
1986
Very Close Quarters
9/1
Depicts a communal flat in Russia where the Government randomly assigns 20 people to live in a one-bedroom apartment.
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Very Close Quarters
1991
Shattered
6.137/226
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life agai...
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Shattered
1995
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
7.5/2
This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "My Fair Lady," the classic musical about a poor young...
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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
1995
My Family Treasure
8/1
A US mother goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that the Russian Tsar left to her peasant father 70 years...
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My Family Treasure
2009
The Little Traitor
6.2/17
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in British Palestine in 1947, just a few mon...
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The Little Traitor
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6.75/4
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
1989
Łódź Ghetto
8/1
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the s...
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Łódź Ghetto
2014
Journey 4 Artists
0/0
Journey 4 Artists is a unique feature length documentary which demonstrates how the power of music has the ability to elevate both the performer and a...
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Journey 4 Artists
1953
Desperate Moment
6.5/2
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
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