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A hardworking milkman in a humble 1910 Ukrainian village who desperately (and fruitlessly) tries to hang on to long-standing traditions in an ever-changing, ever-growing world.
1971
English
Musical
Drama
Romance
Family
Cast & Crew
Topol
(Actor)
.. Tevye
Norma Crane
(Actor)
.. Golde
Leonard Frey
(Actor)
.. Motel
Molly Picon
(Actor)
.. Yente
Paul Mann
(Actor)
.. Lazar Wolf
Rosalind Harris
(Actor)
.. Tzeitel
Michele Marsh
(Actor)
.. Hodel
Neva Small
(Actor)
.. Chava
Paul Michael Glaser
(Actor)
.. Perchik
Ray Lovelock
(Actor)
.. Fyedka
Elaine Edwards
(Actor)
.. Shprintze
Candy Bonstein
(Actor)
.. Rielke
Shimen Ruskin
(Actor)
.. Mordcha
Zvee Scooler
(Actor)
.. Rabbi
Louis Zorich
(Actor)
.. Constable
Alfred Scopp
(Actor)
.. Avram
Howard Goorney
(Actor)
.. Nachum
Barry Dennen
(Actor)
.. Mendel
Vernon Dobtcheff
(Actor)
.. Russian Official
Ruth Madoc
(Actor)
.. Fruma Sarah
Patience Collier
(Actor)
.. Grandma Tzeitel
Tutte Lemkow
(Actor)
.. Fiddler
Stella Courtney
(Actor)
.. Shandel
Jacob Kalich
(Actor)
.. Yankel
Brian Coburn
(Actor)
.. Beri
George Little
(Actor)
.. Hone
Stanley Fleet
(Actor)
.. Farcel
Arnold Diamond
(Actor)
.. Moishe
Marika Rivera
(Actor)
.. Rijka
Mark Malicz
(Actor)
.. Ezekial
Aharon Ipale
(Actor)
.. Sheftel
Roger Lloyd Pack
(Actor)
.. Sexton
Vladimir Medar
(Actor)
.. Priest
Alfred Maron
(Actor)
.. Previous Rabbi
Otto Diamant
(Actor)
.. Yussel
Hazel Wright
(Actor)
.. Rebecca
Carl Jaffe
(Actor)
.. Isaac
Miki Iveria
(Actor)
.. Bess
Hilda Kriseman
(Actor)
.. Zelda
Sarah Cohen
(Actor)
.. Bashe
Susan Sloman
(Actor)
.. Nechama
Cyril Bass
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
A. Haverstock
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
Leo Wright
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
C.C. Bilham
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
M. Winter
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
H. Krein
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
Ivan Baptie
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Michael Ingleton
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Ken Robson
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Bob Stevenson
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Roy Durbin
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Jody Hall
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Barry Lines
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Adam Scott
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Lou Zamprogna
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Albin Pahernik
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Ina Claire
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Karen Trent
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Tanya Bayona
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Petra Siniawski
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Peter Johnston
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Larry Bianco
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Walter Cartier
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Rene Sartoris
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Donald MacLennan
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Guy Lutman
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Sammy Bayes
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Raymond Lovelock
(Actor)
.. Fyedka
Alfie Scopp
(Actor)
.. Avram
More Information
Did You Know..
Topol
(Actor)
.. Tevye
Born:
September 09, 1935
Died: March 08, 2023
Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Palestine (now Israel)
Died: March 08, 2023
Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Palestine (now Israel)
Trivia:
At one time Israel's most popular film personality, Topol first learned to act in amateur theatricals while serving in the Army. Back in civilian clothes, Topol established a satirical theatre troupe in Tel Aviv, and in 1961 was one of the founding members of the Municipal Theatre of Haifa. He appeared in his first film in 1964, and two years later made his English-language screen bow as Abou Ibn Kaden in the big-budget Mickey Marcus biopic Cast a Giant Shadow (1966). His chief claim to fame is his portrayal of Tevye the Milkman in the long-running musical Fiddler on the Roof; he scored an enormous success in this role on the London stage, then earned an Academy Award nomination for his interpretation of Tevye in the 1971 film version of Fiddler. While criticized in some circles for relying upon "cute" acting tricks, Topol has managed to retain his stardom--and his home-grown fan following--for over three decades. Some of Topol's most notable post-Fiddler roles have included the title character in Brecht's Galileo (1975), Dr. Zarkhov in 1980's Flash Gordon and Berel Jastrow in the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War and its 1987 sequel War and Remembrance.
Norma Crane
(Actor)
.. Golde
Born:
November 10, 1928
Died: January 01, 1973
Died: January 01, 1973
Trivia:
Actress Norma Crane played Golde, wife of Tevye (played by Topol), in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof.
Leonard Frey
(Actor)
.. Motel
Born:
September 04, 1938
Died: August 24, 1988
Died: August 24, 1988
Trivia:
Supporting actor, onscreen from the late '60s. For his portrayal of Motel the tailor in Fiddler on the Roof (1971) he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. He came to prominence as the character Harold in the stage and screen versions of The Boys in the Band (film, 1970). He died of AIDS.
Molly Picon
(Actor)
.. Yente
Born:
June 01, 1898
Died: April 05, 1992
Died: April 05, 1992
Trivia:
Pixieish singer-comedienne Picon began her career in the Yiddish theatre at age 6 in her native Philadelphia. After Picon's New York debut at the Arch Street theatre in 1912, she ascended to stardom with the Second Avenue Yiddish Stage, then toured vaudeville in an act called The Four Seasons. Such was her popularity in the 1920s that many of her stage vehicles had the name "Molly" incorporated in their titles; in 1931, she opened a theatre bearing her name. In films from the silent era, Molly is most fondly remembered for her Yiddish-language vehicles of the 1930s. Her all-time best feature was 1936's Yidl with the Fiddle, a captivating musical directed on location in Poland by Joseph Green; Molly was never more charming than as the itinerant Jewish musician who disguises herself as a boy to fend off unwanted male advances. Back in the U.S. when war broke out, Picon made her English-language stage debut in 1940. She alternated between the Yiddish and "mainstream" stage throughout the 1950s and 1960s; on Broadway, she starred in Neil Simon's first play Come Blow Your Horn and in the 1961 musical Milk and Honey. It was in the film version of Come Blow Your Horn that Picon first spoke English on the big screen (she had previously made several delightful TV appearances, notably in the recurring role of unflappable Bronx widow Mrs. Bronson on Car 54, Where are You?) Among her very few film roles of the 1970s was Yente the Matchmaker in 1971's Fiddler on the Roof. The widow of Yiddish stage star Jacob Adler (who had been one of her first theatrical directors), Molly Picon summed up her life, work and philosophy in her two volumes of memoirs, So Laugh a Little and The Sound of Laughter.
Paul Mann
(Actor)
.. Lazar Wolf
Born:
December 02, 1915
Rosalind Harris
(Actor)
.. Tzeitel
Michele Marsh
(Actor)
.. Hodel
Neva Small
(Actor)
.. Chava
Born:
November 17, 1952
Paul Michael Glaser
(Actor)
.. Perchik
Born:
March 25, 1943
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Trivia:
The possessor of a BA from Tulane University and an MA from Boston University, Paul Michael Glaser first appeared on a New York stage in Joseph Papp's 1968 production of Rockabye Hamlet.. Billed in the early stages of his career as Michael Glaser, he was featured on Broadway in The Man in the Glass Booth, in such films as Fiddler on the Roof (1971, as Perchik) and Butterflies are Free (1972) and on the TV soap operas Love is Many Splendored Thing and Love of Life. He reverted to his three-barreled name when cast as Detective David Starsky, one of two hotshot young police officers who jetted around an unnamed crime-ridden municipality in their bright red 1974 Ford Torino and attempted to wipe the streets clean of the criminal element, on the long-running (1975-79) TV cop series Starsky and Hutch. After 1984, Glaser cut back sharply on his acting appearances to concentrate on directing such TV movies as Amazons and such theatrical features as The Running Man (1987), The Air Up There (1994) and Kazaam (1996), and episodes of series programs including The Agency, Judging Amy, Third Watch and Las Vegas. In 2003, Glaser landed a small role opposite Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in Nancy Meyers's romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give. The following year, Warners released a tongue-in-cheek big screen cinematization of Starsky in which Ben Stiller played the character of David and Owen Wilson played his partner, Detective Ken Hutchinson. Glaser and longtime series co-star David Soul made cameo appearances at the end of the film, billed respectively as The Old Starsky and The Old Hutch. In the late 1980s Glaser's life was torn apart by the most appalling of tragedies. As the result of a contaminated blood transfusion, his wife Elizabeth and their two children were infected with the HIV virus, and in 1988, their daughter Ariel died at age seven. Subsequently, Paul and Elizabeth became the most adamant, tireless, and omnipresent AIDS awareness activists in any profession. In 1988 the two helped found the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Sadly, Elizabeth died in December of 1994. Since then, the Elizabeth Glaser Scientists Award was established to fund research into the AIDS virus. Glaser subsequently remarried producer/writer Tracy Barone in 1996; after a little over a decade together, the two filed for divorce.
Ray Lovelock
(Actor)
.. Fyedka
Elaine Edwards
(Actor)
.. Shprintze
Candy Bonstein
(Actor)
.. Rielke
Shimen Ruskin
(Actor)
.. Mordcha
Born:
February 25, 1907
Died: April 23, 1976
Died: April 23, 1976
Trivia:
A wild-haired character comedian from Poland, Shimen Ruskin popped up in scores of Hollywood films and television shows from 1938-1975. Having begun his screen career playing bits and performing odd jobs in Yiddish-language films made in New York, Ruskin turned to acting full-time in the 1940s, usually playing excitable types such as headwaiters, bartenders, store keepers, haberdashery salesmen, and the like. Late in life, he appeared as Meyer, the waiter on the short-lived television series The Corner Bar (1972-1973) and played Mordcha in the screen version of Fiddler on the Roof (1971).
Zvee Scooler
(Actor)
.. Rabbi
Born:
December 01, 1899
Died: March 25, 1985
Died: March 25, 1985
Trivia:
Ukrainian émigré Zvee Scooler made his stage debut in 1912, working New York's Yiddish theater circuit. He announced for several ethnic radio stations, and appeared in plays written in a multitude of languages. In films from the 1960s onward, Scooler appeared in such Manhattan-based productions as The Pawnbroker (1965) and The Detective (1968). He also played the Rabbi in the screen adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof (1971).
Louis Zorich
(Actor)
.. Constable
Born:
February 12, 1924
Trivia:
Educated at Roosevelt University, bearded, booming-voiced Louis Zorich has been a working actor for nearly 50 years. Zorich made his off-Broadway debut in a revival of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, and has appeared on Broadway in Becket, Moby Dick, Hadrian VII, and Moonchildren. He also appeared as Ben in Dustin Hoffman's 1984 staging of Death of a Salesman, repeating this role in the 1985 film version. On television, Zorich has been seen as Jules Berger in Brooklyn Bridge (1991) and as Paul Reiser's father in Mad About You (which ran from 1992 to 1999), and heard in innumerable commercial voice-overs. Louis Zorich is the husband of Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis.
Alfred Scopp
(Actor)
.. Avram
Howard Goorney
(Actor)
.. Nachum
Born:
January 01, 1921
Barry Dennen
(Actor)
.. Mendel
Born:
February 22, 1938
Trivia:
Character actor Barry Dennen works primarily on stage and British TV.
Vernon Dobtcheff
(Actor)
.. Russian Official
Ruth Madoc
(Actor)
.. Fruma Sarah
Born:
April 16, 1943
Birthplace: Norwich, Norfolk
Birthplace: Norwich, Norfolk
Patience Collier
(Actor)
.. Grandma Tzeitel
Born:
January 01, 1910
Died: January 01, 1987
Died: January 01, 1987
Trivia:
British lead/character actress Patience Collier appeared in many productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the British National Theatre, on television and in scores of radio shows. In film she is best remembered for her deliciously wicked portrayal of Mrs. Poulteney in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981).
Tutte Lemkow
(Actor)
.. Fiddler
Born:
January 01, 1918
Died: November 10, 1991
Died: November 10, 1991
Trivia:
Norwegian dancer/choreographer Tutte Lemkow entered the British film industry as a bit player in the early 1950s. Lemkow went on to stage the dance sequences for such otherwise nonmusical efforts as The Captain's Paradise (1953) and Bonjour Tristesse (1958). Most of his screen appearances were confined to eccentric character roles in films like Ben-Hur (1959), The Wrong Box (1967), Theatre of Blood (1973) and Red Sonja (1985). Tutte Lemkow also essayed the non-speaking title role in the 1970 movie version of Fiddler on the Roof.
Stella Courtney
(Actor)
.. Shandel
Jacob Kalich
(Actor)
.. Yankel
Brian Coburn
(Actor)
.. Beri
Born:
January 01, 1936
Died: January 01, 1990
Died: January 01, 1990
George Little
(Actor)
.. Hone
Stanley Fleet
(Actor)
.. Farcel
Arnold Diamond
(Actor)
.. Moishe
Born:
January 01, 1918
Trivia:
With the ability to speak several different languages, British character actor Arnold Diamond was frequently cast as a foreigner or an official on many television shows and in films.
Marika Rivera
(Actor)
.. Rijka
Born:
November 13, 1919
Mark Malicz
(Actor)
.. Ezekial
Aharon Ipale
(Actor)
.. Sheftel
Born:
December 27, 1951
Roger Lloyd Pack
(Actor)
.. Sexton
Born:
February 08, 1944
Birthplace: Islington, London
Birthplace: Islington, London
Trivia:
British actor Roger Lloyd-Pack is adventuresome. One day, he might be acting in a Shakespeare production (A Midsummer Night's Dream, for example) and the next day in a Tony Dow (of Leave It to Beaver fame) production (U.F.O., for example). In between, Lloyd-Pack might do a little Dickens (Oliver Twist), Fielding (Tom Jones), and Kafka (The Trial), with enough time left over for a quick trip to Transylvania (Interview With the Vampire). Although trained in the classical tradition at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Lloyd-Pack is as likely to perform works from the new guard as well as the old guard. On occasion, he even acts in experimental adaptations of traditional works. For example, he starred as Prospero in a Shakespeare production of The Tempest -- renamed The Caribbean Tempest -- featuring bongo drums, acrobats, stilt-walkers, and fire-eaters. Lloyd-Pack, who was born in London on February 8, 1944, also performs under two unhyphenated versions of his name: Roger Lloyd Pack and Owen Lloyd Pack. He has been acting in film and television roles since the 1960s, including such well-known productions as Hamlet, Fiddler on the Roof, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Longitude, and the award-winning Yasmina Reza play Art. He is probably best known to British audiences for his role as Trigger in the TV series Only Fools and Horses. His daughter, Emily Lloyd, also acts professionally. His wife is the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham.
Vladimir Medar
(Actor)
.. Priest
Alfred Maron
(Actor)
.. Previous Rabbi
Born:
January 01, 1911
Died: January 01, 1986
Died: January 01, 1986
Trivia:
British actor Alfred Maron played character roles on television, stage, and in feature films. He was typically cast in comical roles and specialized in playing Orthodox Jewish people. Before he became an actor, Maron was a tailor.
Otto Diamant
(Actor)
.. Yussel
Born:
December 22, 1905
Hazel Wright
(Actor)
.. Rebecca
Carl Jaffe
(Actor)
.. Isaac
Born:
March 21, 1902
Died: April 12, 1974
Died: April 12, 1974
Trivia:
German actor Carl Jaffe found it expedient to move to England in the late 1930s. Inevitably, Jaffe found himself cast as Nazis or heel-clicking Prussian aristocrats. His film characters in the postwar years were more sympathetic, but no less Teutonic. In the 1950s and 1960s, Carl Jaffe was often engaged to play Werner Von Braun types in such films as Rockets Galore (1954) and First Man Into Space (1958).
Miki Iveria
(Actor)
.. Bess
Born:
June 14, 1910
Died: March 29, 1994
Died: March 29, 1994
Trivia:
Born a Georgian princess, Miki Iveria and her family were forced out of their homeland by Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. The exiles moved throughout Europe before settling in England. Though originally known as Gayane Mickeladze, she adopted the name Miki Iveria for her stage debut in a late '30s production of Tovarich. Her subsequent career in theater encompassed several decades and dozens of supporting roles. Iveria made her screen debut in The Adventures of Tartu (1943). Her many other film credits include Too Young to Love (1960), Arrivederci, Baby! (1966), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and Dance With a Stranger (1985). Iveria had a real passion for Maltese dogs and, in 1980, published an authoritative book on them.
Hilda Kriseman
(Actor)
.. Zelda
Sarah Cohen
(Actor)
.. Bashe
Susan Sloman
(Actor)
.. Nechama
Cyril Bass
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
A. Haverstock
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
Leo Wright
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
C.C. Bilham
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
M. Winter
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
H. Krein
(Actor)
.. Village Band Member
Ivan Baptie
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Michael Ingleton
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Ken Robson
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Bob Stevenson
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Born:
March 31, 1905
Roy Durbin
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Jody Hall
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Barry Lines
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Adam Scott
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Lou Zamprogna
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Albin Pahernik
(Actor)
.. Jewish Male Dancer
Ina Claire
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Born:
October 15, 1892
Died: February 21, 1985
Died: February 21, 1985
Trivia:
A comedienne on vaudeville in pre-World War I days, Ina Claire made only a few films during the silent era (beginning with The Puppet Crown, 1915), instead concentrating on her stage work. She was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 and 1916, appeared for two years as the star of The Gold Diggers, and developed into a Broadway favorite in the '20s. On Broadway she was the "queen of high comedy," a sophisticated blonde with verve and panache. She returned to the screen shortly after the advent of sound in The Awful Truth (1929). Her bubbly comedic style was employed in a handful of other movies in the '30s and '40s; her last appearance was as Dorothy McGuire's courageous, doomed mother in Claudia (1943). She retired from the stage in 1954. She was married to screen idol John Gilbert from 1929-31.
Karen Trent
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Tanya Bayona
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Petra Siniawski
(Actor)
.. Jewish Female Dancer
Peter Johnston
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Larry Bianco
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Walter Cartier
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Rene Sartoris
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Donald MacLennan
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Guy Lutman
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Sammy Bayes
(Actor)
.. Russian Dancer
Raymond Lovelock
(Actor)
.. Fyedka
Alfie Scopp
(Actor)
.. Avram
