Trivia

Had appeared as a member of a MENSA-like society in The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case (1977)). In real life, he actually was a MENSA member.

Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the song "Edelweiss" specifically for him to perform on Broadway in "The Sound of Music".

Had performed the role of Tevye ("Fiddler on the Roof") over 2,000 times at various venues.

He made guest appearances on both of the longest running prime time dramas in US television history: La ley del revólver (1955) and La ley y el orden (1990).

Bikel's folk song record album, "Songs of a Russian Gypsy" (1958) became an unexpected hit and remained highly popular through the early 1960s. This became Elektra Records' best selling album at the time.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 29, 2005.

His parents, Miriam Gizella (Riegler) and Josef Bikel-Hasenfratz, were Jewish immigrants from Bukovina, in Central Europe.

Co-founded the Newport Folk Festival in 1959 (with Pete Seeger).

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1958, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "The Rope Dancers", and in 1960, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "The Sound of Music".

He was a vocal supporter of the Civil Rights movement and other human rights movements.

While making his film debut in La reina africana (1951), he appeared on the London stage in "Love of Four Colonels".

Theodore Bikel screen tested for the title role of the James Bond movie 007 contra Goldfinger (1964), which went to Gert Fröbe.

He was the first person besides Bob Dylan to perform his song ''Blowin' in The Wind'' in public.

Following his death, he was interred at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California, at the Garden of Solomon.

In The Twilight Zone (1959-1963), he played a man who was intensely paranoid about Communism and Socialism and was devoted to harassing people whom he felt were believers. In real life, he was known for his far-left views.

Had played submarine officers from three different European navies: as the executive officer of a German World War II U-Boat in the film El Zorro del Mar (1957); as retired World War I Austro-Hungarian U-Boat Captain Georg Von Trapp in the original 1959 Broadway production of La novicia rebelde (1965); and as the captain of a Soviet submarine during the Cold War in the film ¡Ahí vienen los rusos, ahí vienen los rusos! (1966).

He was an active supporter and campaigner for John F Kennedy in the 1960 U.S. Presidential election.

Theodore Bikel screen tested for the role of Goldfinger in the James Bond movie.

He was known for his liberal political views.

Theodore Bikel was a human- and civil-rights activist who ardently opposed blacklisting and McCarthyism during the 1950s.

Folksinger and actor who starred as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Max Muller in the 1958 film Fuga en cadenas (1958).

He appeared with Katharine Hepburn in La reina africana (1951).