If I Were a Live Man

Or

It's Time to Pay the Fiddler?

 

Or

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night...

 

Or

The Hills Will be Filled with the Sound of Silence for Captain Gone Trapp

(Props to Don)

 

Or

Sunrise, Some Set

(Kudos to beloved observer Bill)

Ted Bikel found a way off the roof, dying of natural causes at the age of 91. He started playing Tevye in The Fiddler on the Roof in his teens in Tel Aviv, and spent most of the next 7 decades schlepping through the shtetl, becoming the most prolific milkman in Broadway history. Showing a penchant for insufferable musicals, he also created the role of Captain von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music. He earned an Academy Award nomination in The Defiant Ones as the Sheriff pursuing Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. Other roles included Worf’s adoptive father on Star Trek: The Next Generation, German officers in The African Queen and The Enemy Below, and the holier than thou Oliver Crangle, brought down, literally, by his pursuit of evil. In addition to his acting, he was a well-regarded folksinger, co-founding the Newport Folk Festival.