He was a really good character actor. He was in numerous TV shows and Movies from the 1950’s on.
They could have left out Political Activist, bad Joss.
Just last night I watched an episode of Columbo he was in...masterful job.
RIP Mr. Bikel.
One of my first albums was Bikel’s folk songs from all over the world. A folkie friend at school gave it to me. Still remember some of the songs, although the album is long lost.
People say his versions were not authentic, sort of like the Clancy Brothers, but who cares? He had a feeling for the hidden meaning usually buried in a folk song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeVfzY3Fzu0
I just saw him in The African Queen.
My brother’s never going to guess this one in 20 questions today!
My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, great actor.
One of my favorite things he did was a reading of some Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short stories, including Gimpel the Fool. His rich voice was like cold cream poured on strawberries.
My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, great actor.
One of my favorite things he did was a reading of some Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short stories, including Gimpel the Fool. His rich voice was like cold cream poured on strawberries.
I thought he died long time ago
He was in a Twilight Zone episode were he was going to make all the evil people 12 inches tall.
Political activist = Liberal trouble-maker
RIP.
Saw him in Sound of Music at the old Erlanger Theater in downtown Chicago when I was a kid (around 1960).
Outed Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
That blackguard who uses the science of speech
More to blackmail and swindle than teach;
He made it the devilish business of his
“To find out who this Miss Doolittle is.”
Every time we looked around
There he was, that hairy hound From Budapest.
Never leaving us alone, Never have I ever known
A ruder pest!
Finally I decided it was foolish
Not to let him have his chance with her.
So I stepped aside and let him dance with her.
Oozing charm from every pore
He oiled his way around the floor.
Every trick that he could play,
He used to strip her mask away.
And when at last the dance was done,
He glowed as if he knew he’d won!
And with a voice too eager,
And a smile too broad, He announced to the hostess
That she was a fraud!
Mrs. Pearce: No!
Henry: Ja vol!
“Her English is too good”, he said,
“That clearly indicates that she is foreign.
Whereas others are instructed in their native language
English people aren’t.
And although she may have studied with an expert
Dialectician and grammarian
I can tell that she was born Hungarian!”
I remember him mainly as playing Susan Ivanova’s rabbi in Babylon %.
Unfortunately, he was also a huuuuuuge lefty, always running for the World Zionist Congress on the Labor Zionist ticket. How he must have relished his role in the "Four O'Clock" episode of "The Twilight Zone."
Bikel also played Worf's adopted Russian father in "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
-PJ