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.

Filmography

• 2016Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words — Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
• 2009The Little Traitor — Interrogator
• 2002Crime and Punishment — Captain Koch
• 1998Babylon 5: In the Beginning — Lenonn
• 1998Second Chances — Dutch John Hathaway
• Brooklyn South — Solomon Shuyler
• 1997Shadow Conspiracy — Prof. Yuri Pochenko
• The Pretender — Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg
• JAG — Farmer with Plane
• 1995My Family Treasure — Grandpa Danieloff
• Babylon 5 — Rabbi Koslov
• 1994In the Month of Kislev — Narrator
• 1993Benefit of the Doubt — Gideon Lee
• 1992Crisis in the Kremlin — Leo
• Memories of Midnight — Napoleon Chotas
• 1991Shattered — Dr. Berkus
• Law & Order — Sol Bregman
• Christine Cromwell
• 1989See You in the Morning — Bronie
• 1989The Final Days — Henry Kissinger
• The New Lassie
• 1989Łódź Ghetto — (voice)
• 1988A Stoning in Fulham County — Abe Moser
• 1988Inside the Soviet Circus — Narrator
• Beauty and the Beast — Eli
• 1987Dark Tower — Max Gold
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Sergey Rozhenko
• L.A. Law — Kurt Rubin
• 1986Very Close Quarters — Victor
• 1985Prince Jack — Georgi
• The Equalizer
• Cover Up
• Glitter
• Murder, She Wrote — Rosanno Bertolucci, Yuri Lermentov, Inspector Van Horn, Professor Harold Crenshaw
• Hotel
• Knight Rider — Graham Deauville
• Dynasty
• Falcon Crest — Marin Dimitrov
• The Fall Guy
• 1980Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere — Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
• 1980The Return of the King — Aragorn (voice)
• Fantasy Island — Ambassador Eric Soro
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• 1978The Stingiest Man in Town — Marley's Ghost (voice)
• Testimony of Two Men — Peter Heger
• The San Pedro Beach Bums
• Charlie's Angels — Prof. Wycinski
• 1976Victory at Entebbe — Yakov Shlomo
• Medical Story — Danziger
• 1975Murder on Flight 502 — Otto Gruenwaldt
• Little House on the Prairie — Yuli Pyatakov
• Police Woman
• 1972Killer by Night — Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
• 1972The Little Ark — The Captain
• 1971200 Motels — Rance Muhammitz / Dave
• All in the Family — Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer
• Cannon
• Columbo — Oliver Brandt
• 1970Darker Than Amber — Meyer
• Hawaii Five-O — Prof. Erich Stoss
• 1969My Side of the Mountain — Bando
• 1968Sweet November — Alonzo
• The Mod Squad
• Ironside
• 1967Saint Joan — Robert de Baudricourt
• 1967The Desperate Ones — Kisielev
• 1967The Diary of Anne Frank — Hans Van Daan
• ABC Stage 67 — Homer T. Hatch
• Mission: Impossible — General Casimir Zepke
• 1966Noon Wine — Homer T. Hatch
• 1966The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! — The Russian captain
• 1965Sands of the Kalahari — Bondrechai
• Another World
• 1964My Fair Lady — Zoltan Karpathy
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• Burke's Law — Vic Bates, Senor Manfred Gonzales
• Combat! — Francois Perrault
• Sam Benedict
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Mahmel Homatka
• The Dick Powell Show — Captain Bellini, Nicholas Simonakis
• 1960A Dog of Flanders — Piet van Gelder
• Route 66
• 1960The Dybbuk — Sender
• Rawhide — Pence
• 1959The Angry Hills — Dimitrios Tassos
• 1959The Blue Angel — Klepert
• The Twilight Zone — Oliver Crangle
• 1959Woman Obsessed — Dr. R. W. Gibbs
• 1958Fraulein — Col. Dimitri Bucaron
• 1958I Bury the Living — Andy McKee
• 1958I Want to Live! — Carl G.G. Palmberg
• Naked City — Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski, Dr. Stanley Wilford
• 1958The Defiant Ones — Sheriff Max Muller
• DuPont Show of the Month — Capt. Alvarado
• 1957The Enemy Below — Heinie Schwaffer
• 1957The Pride and the Passion — General Jouvet
• 1957The Vintage — Eduardo Uribari
• Wagon Train — Dr. Denker
• 1956Flight from Vienna — Col. Sandor Kosice
• 1955Above Us the Waves — German Officer
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Sergeant Ottermole
• Gunsmoke — Martin Kellums
• Strange Experiences — Man
• 1955The Colditz Story — Vandy
• 1954Betrayed — German Sergeant (uncredited)
• Climax! — Martin Humphries
• 1954Forbidden Cargo — Max
• 1954The Divided Heart — Josip
• 1954The Love Lottery — Parsimonious
• 1954The Young Lovers — Joseph
• 1953A Day to Remember — Henri Dubot
• 1953Desperate Moment — Anton
• 1953Melba — Paul Brotha
• 1953Never Let Me Go — Lieutenant
• 1953The Kidnappers — Dr. Willem Bloem
• 1952Moulin Rouge — King Milo IV of Serbia
• 1952The African Queen — First Officer
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Uncle Lajos, De Baudricourt
• Studio One — Machek, Henri Blanchard, Julius Caesar, Grossman
• Kraft Television Theatre

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2014Journey 4 Artists — Self
• 2010Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen — Self
• 2004Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal — Himself
• 1995More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' — Self / Zoltan Karpathy
• 1988The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• 1971The Making of 200 Motels — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1967Festival — Self
• The Hollywood Palace — Self - Folk Singer
• Tonight in Person — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self