- Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the song "Edelweiss" specifically for him to perform on Broadway in "The Sound of Music".
- Had appeared as a member of a MENSA-like society in The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case (1977)). In real life, he actually was a MENSA member.
- Had performed the role of Tevye ("Fiddler on the Roof") over 2,000 times at various venues.
- He made guest appearances on both of the longest running prime time dramas in US television history: Gunsmoke (1955) and Law & Order (1990).
- Bikel's folk song record album, "Songs of a Russian Gypsy" (1958) became an unexpected hit and remained highly popular through the early 1960s. This became Elektra Records' best selling album at the time.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 29, 2005.
- His parents, Miriam Gizella (Riegler) and Josef Bikel-Hasenfratz, were Jewish immigrants from Bukovina, in Central Europe.
- Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1958, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "The Rope Dancers", and in 1960, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "The Sound of Music".
- Co-founded the Newport Folk Festival (with Pete Seeger).
- He was a vocal supporter of the Civil Rights movement and other human rights movements.
- Following his death, he was interred at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California, at the Garden of Solomon.
- While making his film debut in The African Queen (1951), he appeared on the London stage in "Love of Four Colonels".
- Theodore Bikel screen tested for the title role of the James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), which went to Gert Fröbe.
- He was the first person besides Bob Dylan to perform his song ''Blowin' in The Wind'' in public.
- Had played submarine officers from three different European navies: as the executive officer of a German World War II U-Boat in the film The Enemy Below (1957); as retired World War I Austro-Hungarian U-Boat Captain Georg Von Trapp in the original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music (1965); and as the captain of a Soviet submarine during the Cold War in the film The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966).
- In The Twilight Zone (1959-1963), he played a man who was intensely paranoid about Communism and Socialism and was devoted to harassing people whom he felt were believers. In real life, he was known for his far-left views.
- He was an active supporter and campaigner for John F Kennedy in the 1960 U.S. Presidential election.
- Theodore Bikel screen tested for the role of Goldfinger in the James Bond movie.
- He was known for his liberal political views.
- Theodore Bikel was a human- and civil-rights activist who ardently opposed blacklisting and McCarthyism during the 1950s.
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