
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.

First Officer
The African Queen

Aragorn (voice)
The Return of the King

Lenonn
Babylon 5: In the Beginning

Paul Brotha
Melba

Yakov Shlomo
Victory at Entebbe

Sheriff Max Muller
The Defiant Ones

General Jouvet
The Pride and the Passion

The Russian captain
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

Andy McKee
I Bury the Living

Rance Muhammitz / Dave
200 Motels

Carl G.G. Palmberg
I Want to Live!

German Officer
Above Us the Waves

Self
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

Bando
My Side of the Mountain

Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

Heinie Schwaffer
The Enemy Below

Self
Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels

Prof. Yuri Pochenko
Shadow Conspiracy

Self
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

Self
Festival

Dutch John Hathaway
Second Chances

Lieutenant
Never Let Me Go

Meyer
Darker Than Amber

Dr. Willem Bloem
The Kidnappers

Bondrechai
Sands of the Kalahari

Alonzo
Sweet November

Dimitrios Tassos
The Angry Hills

Max Gold
Dark Tower

Otto Gruenwaldt
Murder on Flight 502

Bronie
See You in the Morning

Joseph
The Young Lovers

Piet van Gelder
A Dog of Flanders

Josip
The Divided Heart

Max
Forbidden Cargo

Dr. R. W. Gibbs
Woman Obsessed

Leo
Crisis in the Kremlin

The Captain
The Little Ark

Henri Dubot
A Day to Remember

Eduardo Uribari
The Vintage

Henry Kissinger
The Final Days

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

Klepert
The Blue Angel

Zoltan Karpathy
My Fair Lady

Col. Dimitri Bucaron
Fräulein

Marley's Ghost (voice)
The Stingiest Man in Town

Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
Killer by Night

King Milo IV of Serbia
Moulin Rouge

Robert de Baudricourt
Saint Joan

Homer T. Hatch
Noon Wine

Georgi
Prince Jack

German Sergeant (uncredited)
Betrayed

Parsimonious
The Love Lottery

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

Abe Moser
A Stoning in Fulham County

Captain Koch
Crime and Punishment

Gideon Lee
Benefit of the Doubt

Narrator
Inside the Soviet Circus

Hans Van Daan
The Diary of Anne Frank

Kisielev
The Desperate Ones

Col. Sandor Kosice
Flight from Vienna

Narrator
In the Month of Kislev

Vandy
The Colditz Story

Sender
The Dybbuk

Very Close Quarters

Dr. Berkus
Shattered

Self / Zoltan Karpathy (as Theo Bikel)
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

Grandpa Danieloff
My Family Treasure

Interrogator
Ha-boged Hakatan

Self
Night of 100 Stars

(voice)
Łódź Ghetto

Self
Journey 4 Artists

Anton
Desperate Moment
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
72
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-05-02
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Also Known As
Theodore Meir Bikel