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.

KNOWN FOR

Law & Order
1994
The Mike Douglas Show
1962
JAG
2003
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1990
Columbo
1977
Murder, She Wrote
1989
Hawaii Five-O
1969
Babylon 5
1994
Ironside
1971
Falcon Crest
1987
L.A. Law
1992
Wagon Train
1962

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
143
2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
2014
Journey 4 Artists
as Self
2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
as Self
2009
The Little Traitor
as Interrogator
2004
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
as Himself
2003
JAG
as Farmer with Plane
2002
Crime and Punishment
as Captain Koch
1998
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
as Lenonn
1998
Second Chances
as Dutch John Hathaway
1998
The Pretender
as Martin Zeller / Dr. Werner Krieg
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
as Prof. Yuri Pochenko
1997
Brooklyn South
as Solomon Shuyler
1995
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
as Self / Zoltan Karpathy
1995
My Family Treasure
as Grandpa Danieloff
1994
In the Month of Kislev
as Narrator
1994
Law & Order
as Sol Bregman
1994
Babylon 5
as Rabbi Koslov
1994
Murder, She Wrote
as Inspector Van Horn
1993
Benefit of the Doubt
as Gideon Lee
1992
Crisis in the Kremlin
as Leo
1992
L.A. Law
as Kurt Rubin
1991
Shattered
as Dr. Berkus
1991
The New Lassie
1991
Murder, She Wrote
as Yuri Lermentov
1991
Memories of Midnight
as Napoleon Chotas
1990
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Sergey Rozhenko
1989
See You in the Morning
as Bronie
1989
The Final Days
as Henry Kissinger
1989
Łódź Ghetto
as (voice)
1989
Murder, She Wrote
as Rosanno Bertolucci
1989
Christine Cromwell
1988
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
as Self
1988
A Stoning in Fulham County
as Abe Moser
1988
Inside the Soviet Circus
as Narrator
1988
The Equalizer
1988
Beauty and the Beast
as Eli
1987
Dark Tower
as Max Gold
1987
Falcon Crest
as Marin Dimitrov
1987
Murder, She Wrote
as Professor Harold Crenshaw
1986
Very Close Quarters
as Victor
1985
Prince Jack
as Georgi
1985
Dynasty
1985
Hotel
1985
Cover Up
1985
The Fall Guy
1984
Glitter
1983
Knight Rider
as Graham Deauville
1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1980
The Return of the King
as Aragorn (voice)
1980
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
as Rance Muhammitz (voice) (archive footage)
1978
The Stingiest Man in Town
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1978
All in the Family
as Albrecht 'Alvin' Klemmer
1978
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
Police Woman
1978
Fantasy Island
as Ambassador Eric Soro
1977
Columbo
as Oliver Brandt
1977
Charlie's Angels
as Prof. Wycinski
1977
The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977
Testimony of Two Men
as Peter Heger
1976
Victory at Entebbe
as Yakov Shlomo
1976
Little House on the Prairie
as Yuli Pyatakov
1975
Murder on Flight 502
as Otto Gruenwaldt
1975
Medical Story
as Danziger
1973
The Mod Squad
1972
The Little Ark
as The Captain
1972
Killer by Night
as Sgt. Phl 'Sharkey' Gold
1972
Cannon
1972
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1971
200 Motels
as Rance Muhammitz / Dave
1971
The Making of 200 Motels
as Self
1971
Ironside
1970
Darker Than Amber
as Meyer
1969
My Side of the Mountain
as Bando
1969
Hawaii Five-O
as Prof. Erich Stoss
1969
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1968
Sweet November
as Alonzo
1968
Mission: Impossible
as General Casimir Zepke
1967
Festival
as Self
1967
Saint Joan
as Robert de Baudricourt
1967
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Hans Van Daan
1967
The Desperate Ones
as Kisielev
1967
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Folk Singer
1967
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as De Baudricourt
1966
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
as The Russian captain
1966
Noon Wine
as Homer T. Hatch
1966
ABC Stage 67
as Homer T. Hatch
1965
Sands of the Kalahari
as Bondrechai
1965
Tonight in Person
as Self
1965
Gunsmoke
as Martin Kellums
1965
Another World
1965
Burke's Law
as Senor Manfred Gonzales
1964
My Fair Lady
as Zoltan Karpathy
1964
Burke's Law
as Vic Bates
1964
Combat!
as Francois Perrault
1964
Rawhide
as Pence
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1962
The Dick Powell Show
as Captain Bellini
1962
Route 66
1962
Sam Benedict
1962
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Mahmel Homatka
1962
The Twilight Zone
as Oliver Crangle
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1962
Naked City
as Dr. Stanley Wilford
1962
The Dick Powell Show
as Nicholas Simonakis
1962
Wagon Train
as Dr. Denker
1961
Naked City
as Nicholas Ross / Nicholas Rozinski
1960
A Dog of Flanders
as Piet van Gelder
1960
The Dybbuk
as Sender
1959
The Angry Hills
as Dimitrios Tassos
1959
Woman Obsessed
as Dr. R. W. Gibbs
1959
The Blue Angel
as Klepert
1958
The Defiant Ones
as Sheriff Max Muller
1958
I Bury the Living
as Andy McKee
1958
I Want to Live!
as Carl G.G. Palmberg
1958
Fraulein
as Col. Dimitri Bucaron
1958
DuPont Show of the Month
as Capt. Alvarado
1957
The Pride and the Passion
as General Jouvet
1957
The Enemy Below
as Heinie Schwaffer
1957
The Vintage
as Eduardo Uribari
1957
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Uncle Lajos
1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sergeant Ottermole
1957
Climax!
as Martin Humphries
1957
Studio One
as Henri Blanchard
1957
Kraft Television Theatre
1956
Flight from Vienna
as Col. Sandor Kosice
1956
Studio One
as Grossman
1955
Above Us the Waves
as German Officer
1955
The Colditz Story
as Vandy
1955
Studio One
as Machek
1955
Studio One
as Julius Caesar
1955
Strange Experiences
as Man
1954
The Young Lovers
as Joseph
1954
The Divided Heart
as Josip
1954
Forbidden Cargo
as Max
1954
Betrayed
as German Sergeant (uncredited)
1954
The Love Lottery
as Parsimonious
1953
Melba
as Paul Brotha
1953
Never Let Me Go
as Lieutenant
1953
The Kidnappers
as Dr. Willem Bloem
1953
A Day to Remember
as Henri Dubot
1953
Desperate Moment
as Anton
1952
The African Queen
as First Officer
1952
Moulin Rouge
as King Milo IV of Serbia