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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4      Non-Film Score Discussion: Theodore Bikel R.I.P.    FIRST   PRIOR   2 3 4       Last Post   Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 7:39 PM     By:   CindyLover   (Member) DARK TOWER is a modern day horror thriller in which the construction of a skyscraper is being haunted by a ghost. Original director Ken Wiederhorn was replaced during production by Freddie Francis (the film is credited using the pseudonym "Ken Barnett"). Bikel co-starred in the film with Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, and Carol Lynley. Bikel played "Dr. Max Gold," a parapsychologist. Fries Entertainment planned a theatrical release of the film in 1987, but it eventually went straight to video in 1989. I'm not surprised. In one scene towards the climax when Jenny Agutter's character - who turns out to be the one responsible for the ghost (if I remember correctly, it was her late husband, whose skeleton ultimately pulls her into the building with him) - is running for it and a whole load of glass shatters immediately after she heads out of frame, there's a noticeable splice in the editing that ruins the effect.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 7:57 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Theodore Bikel played Henry Kissinger in 1989's "The Final Days," a television movie based on the acclaimed book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The film chronicled President Richard Nixon's administration during the critical period after the Watergate break-in.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 8:07 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Bikel had a small role as a doctor in 1991's SHATTERED, directed by Wolfgang Petersen (AIR FORCE ONE). Alan Silvestri's score for the thriller was released by Milan.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 8:11 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Bikel co-starred with Omar Sharif and Jane Seymour in 1991's television mini-series MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT. The film was based on a Sidney Sheldon novel and was a sequel to the 1977 theatrical film THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT. Bikel played the scheming "Napoleon Chotas." The film was directed by Gary Nelson (THE BLACK HOLE) and scored by Ron Ramin.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 8:32 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) CRISIS IN THE KREMLIN was a action thriller that saw a CIA agent (Robert Rusler) and a retired KGB agent (Theodore Bikel) teaming up to keep Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev from being assassinated. The film never got a theatrical release, and showed up on video in 1992 as "The Assassination Game." Here's a trailer for the film.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 8:52 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Bikel had a supporting role in 1993's BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. Hummie Mann's score for this thriller did not get a release.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 9:59 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In the 1993 U.S.-Russian co-production MY FAMILY TREASURE, an American mother (Dee Wallace) goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that the Russian Tsar left to her peasant father 70 years ago. Bikel played Wallace's grandfather in the film, which was shot in New York and Siberia. The film did not get a U.S. theatrical release, and showed up on home video in 1995.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 10:15 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) 1997's SHADOW CONSPIRACY was the final film directed by George P. Cosmatos. Bikel played a professor in the thriller. Bruce Broughton's score was released by Intrada.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 10:36 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Before the television series "Babylon 5" began its fifth and final season, it transitioned from the shut-down Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN) to Turner Network Television (TNT). Before the season kicked off on 21 January 1998, and to help bring new viewers up to date, TNT broadcast a feature-length movie called "Babylon 5: In the Beginning," which recounted events that occurred before the series began, and hinted at those that had transpired in the previous four seasons. Theodore Bikel had appeared as a rabbi in one earlier episode of the series back in 1994, during the first season. In the telefeature, however, he played a different character. TNT broadcast the film on 4 January 1998.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 10:51 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) 1998's "Second Chances" was a tearjerker about a brave girl and the horse she loves. Although it was directed by James Fargo (Clint Eastwood's THE ENFORCER and EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE), the film went straight to video. Bikel's role was minor.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 11:20 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Reportedly, director Menahem Golan began filming CRIME AND PUNISHMENT in 1993. The final film, a modern day adaptation of Dostoevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed, finally appeared on a theater screen--in Russia--in 2002. The film went straight to video in the U.S., even though it boasted a fine cast, including Crispin Glover, Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, and Theodore Bikel. Bikel played a character named "Captain Koch," which cannot be tied into any character in the novel. Interestingly, John Hurt also starred in a 1979 BBC three-part adaptation of "Crime and Punishment," which should not be confused with this film. Robert O. Ragland provided the score to the film, which has never seen a release.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2015 - 11:36 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Theodore Bikel's final feature film appearance (at age 83) was in the 2007 production THE LITTLE TRAITOR, 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 state. Proffy Liebowitz (Ido Port), a militant yet sensitive eleven year old, wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land. At one point in the film, Proffy ends up before a kangaroo court presided over by Bikel, in a cameo role as a local leader of the paramilitary Haganah. The film played in several film festivals, before ultimately receiving a limited U.S. theatrical release in 2009. In 2014, Bikel co-wrote a documentary about his own life--Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem.    Posted:   Jul 27, 2015 - 12:20 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Thanks Theodore.    Posted:   Jul 27, 2015 - 10:38 AM     By:   Disco Stu   (Member) Three things I remember: 3) He was a contender for Goldfinger, and would have suited the role as far as I am concerned. 2) He was in one of my favourite "Columbo" episode "Bye bye sky high IQ murder". 1) To me Mr. Bikel will first and foremost be the highpriest of the cult of Rava. Again something favourite: the live action Spider-man my all time favourite live action version of Spider-man. We protest vehemently that this has not yet been brought out on DVD, AN OUTRAGE!!! D.S.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Theodore Bikel R.I.P.    << < 2 3 4  >   Go to page:  1 2 3 4   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4

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