ACTOR

Theodore Bikel

1924 - 2015

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Theodore Meir Bikel ( bih-KEL; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist. He appeared in films, including The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Kidnappers (1953), The Enemy Below (1957), I Want to Live! (1958), My Fair Lady (1964), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and 200 Motels (1971). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodore Bikel has received more than 1,326,970 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Theodore Bikel is the 3,390th most popular actor (down from 3,113th in 2019), the 743rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 684th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Austrian Actor.

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  • 50.46

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Theodore Bikel ranks 3,390 out of 13,578. Before him are Valérie Lemercier, Curt Bois, David Patrick Kelly, Giorgia Moll, Danai Gurira, and Robert Picardo. After him are Bradford Dillman, Dorothea Jordan, Ali Larter, Billy Burke, Kevin Pollak, and Gregg Henry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Theodore Bikel ranks 254. Before him are Jimmy Gardner, Qiao Shi, Janet Frame, Sonny Stitt, Marcel Domingo, and Rainer Barzel. After him are Vladimir Semichastny, Olga Gyarmati, Paruyr Sevak, Robert Webber, Joan Aiken, and Claribel Alegría. Among people deceased in 2015, Theodore Bikel ranks 222. Before him are Ninón Sevilla, John Henry Holland, Revaz Chkheidze, Nicholas Liverpool, Michael Blake, and Dinkha IV. After him are Karl Josef Becker, Charles Pasqua, Walter Burkert, Elizabeth Wilson, Tadahiko Ueda, and Henri Coppens.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Theodore Bikel ranks 743 out of 1,424. Before him are Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866), Ludwig Anzengruber (1839), Richard Heuberger (1850), Anderl Molterer (1931), Karl Sesta (1906), and Eugen Wüster (1898). After him are Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759), Otmar Suitner (1922), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915), Andi Herzog (1968), Friedrich Waismann (1896), and Willy Böckl (1893).

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Among ACTORS In Austria

Among actors born in Austria, Theodore Bikel ranks 35. Before him are Karl Markovics (1963), Joseph Schildkraut (1896), Heinz Weixelbraun (1963), Eva May (1902), Fritz Kortner (1892), and Paula Wessely (1907). After him are Alexander Pschill (1970), Lilia Skala (1896), Monica Bleibtreu (1944), Peter Simonischek (1946), Mia May (1884), and Liane Haid (1895).

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Television and Movie Roles

The African Queen
First Officer
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 go down river and face-off a German warship.
Jan 7o 19527.3 / 10
My Fair Lady
Zoltan Karpathy
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Oct 21o 19647.5 / 10
The Defiant Ones
Sheriff Max Muller
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Aug 14o 19587.2 / 10