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Theodore Bikel

Actor, Singer
2 May 1924 to 20 July 2015

An Austrian actor who oscillated between theatre, film and television over his sixty year career, Bikel excelled on stage in Fiddler on the Roof and The Sound of Music. On screen his major credits included The African Queen (1951), My Fair Lady (1964), and an Oscar-nominated supporting turn in The Defiant Ones (1958). 

Read Theodore Bikel's Guardian obituary here