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Chaim Topol (1935–2023) was an Israeli actor, stage actor, dub actor, and illustrator. Born in Tel Aviv, he began his professional work period in 1957. A baritone who spoke English and Hebrew, Topol was a practicing Jew. He died of Alzheimer's disease in Tel Aviv in 2023.
Throughout his career, Topol received several major honors, including the Israel Prize, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, and the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Topol authored several books, including *Topol by Topol* and *Topol's treasury of Jewish humor, wit, and wisdom*. He had three children.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 Sep 1935
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Topol by Topol
- Topol's treasury of Jewish humor, wit, and wisdom
- Ḥayim mesaper ʻal Ṭopol
- Topol
- Topol
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Tel Aviv, Israel
Chaim Topol (September 9, 1935 - March 8, 2023), often billed simply as Topol, was an Israeli theatrical and film performer, singer and illustrator. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye, the lead role in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof and the 1971 film adaptation, performing this role more than 3,500 times from 1967 through 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chaim…
Known for
- Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen — self2022
- Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles — Self2019
- Life After Flash — Self2017
- Bialik - King of the Jews — Hayim Nahman Bialik2014
- Bond in Greece — self2006
- Harry Saltzman: Showman — Self2000
- Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'2000
- Left Luggage — Yacov Apfelschnitt1998
- seaQuest DSV — Dr. Rafik Hassan1993
- War and Remembrance — Berel Jastrow1988
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Israel
- Active from
- 1935
- Active to
- 2023
Discography
- טופול בשירי מלחמה1966
- Topol '681967
- ארבינקא1967
- Topol1969
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,354
- Total plays
- 34,639
Tags
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1935-09-09 ) 9 September 1935, Tel Aviv , Mandatory Palestine
- Died
- 8 March 2023 (2023-03-08) (aged 87), Tel Aviv, Israel
- Other names
- Haym Topol Topol
- Occupations
- Actor singer
- Years active
- 1957–2015
- Notable work
- Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Milos Columbo in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
- Spouse
- Galia Finkelstein [ he ] ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 )
- Children
- Anat Omer Adi
- Relatives
- Yali Topol Margalith (granddaughter)
- Awards
- Kinor David (1964) Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer—Male (1964) Golden Globe for Best Actor (1971) Israel Prize (2015)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Chaim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Tel Aviv
- Place of death
- Tel Aviv
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- Hebrew
- Native language
- Hebrew
- Religion
- Judaism
- Image
- Chaim Topol (1971).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Voice type
- baritone
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- Commons category
- Chaim Topol
- date of birth
- 1935-09-09
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- nickname
- Topol
- name in native language
- חיים טופול
- date of death
- 2023-03-08
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
- end of work period
- 2015-00-00
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Chaim Topol (Hebrew: חיים טופול; 9 September 1935 – 8 March 2023), mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye, the lead character in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof. Topol estimated that he played Tevye more than 3,500 times on stage from 1967 through 2009, and he also portrayed the character in the 1971 film adaptation of the play.
Topol began acting during his Israeli army service as a member of the Nahal entertainment troupe. He later toured Israel with kibbutz theatre and satirical theatre companies. He was a co-founder of the Haifa Theatre. His breakthrough film role came in 1964 as the title character in Sallah Shabati, by Israeli writer Ephraim Kishon, for which he won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer—Male. Topol went on to appear in more than 30 films in Israel and the United States, including Galileo (1975), Flash Gordon (1980), and the James Bond franchise film For Your Eyes Only (1981). He was described as Israel's only internationally recognized entertainer from the 1960s through the 1980s. He won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his 1971 film portrayal of Tevye, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor for a 1991 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chaim Topol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.