tvMr. Bikel’s television career in the United States spans some 35 years. His roles on TV cover an amazing range of characterizations: from a Scottish policeman in Alfred Hitchcock Presents to a Mad Bomber, a South African Boer on the hunt in New York (Equalizer) to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, to Henry Kissinger in The Final Days and the role which earned him his L.A. Emmy Award in 1988 for his role on public television as the 82-year old Harris Newmark.

Bikel’s versatility is demonstrated by the stunning array of portrayals he has given. As witness his repeated appearances in different roles on Murder She Wrote , his guest-starring parts on such series and specials as Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Victory At Entebbe, Paper Chase, as Worf’s adoptive father in Star Trek: The Next Generation , two appearances as a ‘space rabbi’ and a Minbari leader in Babylon 5, a survivor battling memories in L.A. Law, and an embattled father in Law and Order.

 Mr. Bikel has also been a narrator of such TV specials as the National Geographic shows on the Soviet Circus and on Leningrad. In addition he has hosted a number of public service programs dealing with music, religion and education.

Despite a reputation as a “serious actor,” Theodore Bikel’s comedic talents are quite formidable. His guest appearance on the sitcom City had the studio audience , as well as the home viewers, in stitches. And who can forget his portrayal as the German butcher infatuated with Edith Bunker on All In The Family? As Bikel stated in a recent interview: “Some comedians choose to take serious roles from time to time; I am a serious actor who gets a lot of laughs.”

The following is a partial list of TV specials, mini-series or Movies of the Week in which Theodore Bikel has appeared.

  • Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • The Dybbuk
  • Who Has Seen the Wind
  • There Shall Be No Night
  • Noon Wine
  • Saint Joan
  • Murder on Flight 502
  • Victory at Entebbe
  • Testimony of Two Men
  • Loose Change
  • Killer by Night
  • Gershwin: The Man Who Wrote Porgy & Bess (in English & French)
  • Martin Luther King: The Man and the Dream
  • Harris Newmark’s Los Angeles
  • A Stoning in Fulham County
  • The Final Days
  • Memories of Midnight
  • Guest Appearances On Other Programs (In Chronological Order):
  • Wagon Train
  • The Brothers Kanapolis
  • Diamond Fever
  • Hunted
  • Scandal at Peppernut
  • Angry Harvest
  • Six Hours of Terror
  • Appointment with Adventure
  • Twilight Zone
  • Trials of O’Brien
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  • A Patch of Faith
  • The Potentate
  • The Losers
  • Pericles of 31st Street
  • The Prison
  • East Side/West Side
  • Dr. Kildare
  • Gunsmoke
  • Julius Caesar
  • The Power
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Combat
  • Naked City
  • Murder Is a Face I Know
  • Portrait of a Painter
  • Sam Benedict
  • Climax
  • The Violators
  • Hawaii 5-O
  • Mission Impossible
  • Ironside
  • Cannon
  • Mod Squad
  • Little House on the Prairie
  • Charlie’s Angels
  • Ellery Queen
  • Fantasy Island
  • San Pedro Beach Bums
  • Police Woman
  • All in the Family:
    • Love Comes to the Butcher
    • A Girl Like Edith
  • Columbo
  • Knight Rider
  • Trapper John, M.D.
  • Glitter
  • Hotel
  • Cover-Up
  • The New Mike Hammer
  • Dynasty
  • Another World
  • Paper Chase
  • Falcon Crest
  • Murder She Wrote
  • The New Lassie
  • City
  • The Equalizer
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • L.A. Law
  • Babylon 5
  • Law and Order
  • Brooklyn South
  • Michael Hayes