Books By Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel - Author

Theodore Bikel was a much admired and beloved actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist. He appeared in numerous films including The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Enemy Below (1957), I Want to Live! (1958), The Dog of Flanders (1958), The Blue Angel (1959), My Fair Lady (1964) and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Defiant Ones (1958) Bikel was also a widely recognized and recorded folk singer and guitarist. In 1959, he co-founded the Newport Folk Festival and created the role of Captain von Trapp opposite Mary Martin as Maria in the original Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. In 1969, Bikel began acting and singing on stage as Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, a role he performed more often than any other actor to date. The production won nine Tony Awards and was one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway histo