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Theodore Bikel

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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.


— Theodore Bikel


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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.


— Theodore Bikel


#claim #god #i #i do #intent

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.


— Theodore Bikel


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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.


— Theodore Bikel


#gives #hate #hope #i #liberation

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.


— Theodore Bikel


#certain #commandment #compassionate #god #human

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.


— Theodore Bikel


#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.


— Theodore Bikel


#go #i #keep #let go #prefer

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.


— Theodore Bikel


#common #common cause #guitars #i #make

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.


— Theodore Bikel


#better #convinced #i #i am #i can

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.


— Theodore Bikel


#agricultural #around #beauty #bored #doing






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Performing career
After several plays and films in Europe Bikel moved to the United States in 1954 and became a naturalized citizen in 1961. In 1964 he played Zoltan Karpathy the dialect expert in the film version of My Fair Lady. He was president of Actors' Equity in the late 1970s and early 1980s in which office he supported human rights.

Theodore Meir Bikel (born May 2 1924) is a character actor folk singer and musician. His autobiography Theo was publiTheodore Bikeld in 1995. He made his film debut in The African Queen (1951) and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958).

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