Cast: Theodore Bikel

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Theodore Bikel. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The African Queen

1951 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull

Plot Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose Sayer (Hepburn), "a...

7.9

33K votes

7.9

33K votes

My Fair Lady

1964 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Rex Harrison · Stanley Holloway · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into...

7.6

27K votes

7.6

27K votes

I Want to Live!

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Susan Hayward · Simon Oakland · Virginia Vincent · Theodore Bikel

Plot Susan Hayward won the Best Actress Oscar for her shattering portrayal of a fast-living girl who suddenly finds herself facing the death penalty for a murder she didn't commit.

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Defiant Ones

1958 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw

Plot This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Enemy Below

1957 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Dick Powell

Cast Robert Mitchum · Curd Jürgens · David Hedison · Theodore Bikel

Plot Set during the Battle of Atlantic during the Second World War, "The Enemy Below" tells the story of the cat and mouse Destroyer escort/U-Boat hunt. For the Americans, a former...

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Columbo: The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case (TV)

1977 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Peter Falk · Theodore Bikel · Kenneth Mars · Sorrell Booke

Plot Columbo this time tries to tackle a murderer who has one of the highest IQs in the world. The victim is a business partner who threatened to expose the killer...

6.8

315 votes

6.8

315 votes

The Divided Heart

1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Cornell Borchers · Yvonne Mitchell · Armin Dahle · Alexander Knox

Plot During World War II, a German woman named Inga (Cornell Borchers, who won a Best Foreign Actress BAFTA Award) goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed...

6.6

32 votes

6.6

32 votes

Sweet November

1968 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Robert Ellis Miller

Cast Sandy Dennis · Anthony Newley · Theodore Bikel · Burr DeBenning

Plot Why would a sweet girl like this give the key to her apartment to a different man each month? Sara Deever (Sandy Dennis) is a woman lures emotionally crippled men...

6.5

45 votes

6.5

45 votes

The Little Traitor

2007 · Movie · 88 min. · Israel

Direction Lynn Roth

Cast Ido Port · Alfred Molina · Jake Barker · Theodore Bikel

Plot Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a...

6.5

41 votes

6.5

41 votes

Babylon 5: In the Beginning (TV)

1998 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Michael Vejar

Cast Bruce Boxleitner · Mira Furlan · Richard Biggs · Andreas Katsulas

Plot The Earth military encounters an alien race called the Minbari. Through a series of accidents and misunderstandings, a war breaks out that nearly results in the death of every human...

6.5

113 votes

6.5

113 votes

Noon Wine (TV)

1966 · Movie · 48 min. · United States

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Jason Robards · Olivia de Havilland · Theodore Bikel · Per Oscarsson

Plot Jason Robards is rough farmer who makes a mistake and tries to right it. And then there was Olivia de Havilland in one of her last real starring roles, and...

6.4

37 votes

6.4

37 votes

Shattered

1991 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Max

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Alan Arkin · Eva Marie Saint · Paul Ford · Brian Keith

Plot When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he runs aground. He sends his two English speaking...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Fräulein

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Dana Wynter · Mel Ferrer · Dolores Michaels · Margaret Hayes

Plot A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.

6.1

25 votes

6.1

25 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole (TV)

1957 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Theodore Bikel · Rhys Williams · Torin Thatcher · Alfred Hitchcock

Plot A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog. A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police.

6.1

112 votes

6.1

112 votes

I Bury the Living

1958 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Albert Band

Cast Richard Boone · Theodore Bikel · Peggy Maurer · Howard Smith

Plot Through a series of macabre "coincidences," the newly-elected director of a cemetery (Richard Boone) begins to believe that he can cause the deaths of living owners of burial plots by...

6.0

37 votes

6.0

37 votes

200 Motels

1971 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Tony Palmer · Frank Zappa

Cast Mark Volman · Howard Kaylan · Ian Underwood · Aynsley Dunbar

Plot The Mothers of Invention arrive in Centerville, another stopover in an endlessly long tour where every stage is the same as the next: hotel, concert, search for groupies and arguments...

5.9

43 votes

5.9

43 votes

Sands of the Kalahari

1965 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Stuart Whitman · Stanley Baker · Susannah York · Harry Andrews

Plot A small plane crashes in the sweltering deserts of South Africa hundreds of miles from civilization. As parallels are drawn between the group of humans and a nearby pack of...

5.9

121 votes

5.9

121 votes

Never Let Me Go

1953 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Clark Gable · Gene Tierney · Bernard Miles · Richard Haydn

Plot Philip Sutherland is an American news writer stationed in Moscow since the war; while there he falls for a Russian ballet dancer, Marya Lamarkins, who, he finds out, learned English...

5.9

142 votes

5.9

142 votes

Woman Obsessed

1959 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

5.8

121 votes

5.8

121 votes