- Jerry Bock
Jerry Bock (born November 23 1928) is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American musical theatre composer. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. He attended the University of Wisconsin, where he wrote the musical "Big As Life", which toured the state and enjoyed a run in Chicago. - Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof". Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, "The Merry Little Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him. - Norman Frederick Jewison
Receiving his undergraduate education at Malvern Collegiate Institute, Victoria College and University of Toronto, Ontario-born director and producer Norman Jewison also studied piano and music theory at the Royal Conservatory. Following service in the... Receiving his undergraduate education at Malvern Collegiate Institute, Victoria College and University of Toronto, Ontario-born director and producer Norman Jewison also studied piano and music theory at the Royal Conservatory. - Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 - July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater. Among the numerous stage productions he worked on were "On The Town", "High Button Shoes", "The King And I", "The Pajama Game", "Bells Are Ringing", "West Side Story", "Gypsy: A Musical Fable" and "Fiddler on the Roof". - Joseph Stein
Joseph Stein (born May 30, 1912 New York City) is an American playwright best known for his books for musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof", "Zorba", "Take Me Along", and "The Baker's Wife". He won the Tony Award and the Drama Critics Circle Award for "Fiddler on the Roof", Laurence Olivier Award (London) for "The Baker's Wife", the Drama Critics Circle Award and Tony nomination for "Zorba", … - Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel was a Brooklyn-born stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof", Pseudolus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", and Max Bialystock in "The Producers". He had been blacklisted during the 1950s, and his testimony before HUAC was well-publicized. He was a Tony Award and Obie Award winner. - Sholom Aleichem
Sholom Aleichem (May 13, 1916) was a popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. He did much to promote Yiddish writers, and was the first to pen children's literature in Yiddish. His work has been widely translated. The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964), loosely based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about his character Tevye the Milkman, … - Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina (born May 24, 1953) is an English actor of both the stage and screen. Molina is known for his portrayal of the villain Doctor Octopus in "Spider-Man 2" as well as playing key roles in "Chocolat" and "The Da Vinci Code". - Leonard Frey
Leonard Frey (born September 4, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York; died August 24, 1988 in New York) was an American actor. After college, where he studied art with designs on being a painter, he studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner, and decided to pursue a career in theater instead. In 1968, he received critical acclaim for his performance as a bitter, bitchy, … - Theodore Bikel
Theodor Meir Bikel is an Academy Award-nominated Jewish character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in "The African Queen" (1951) and was nominated for an Academy award for his role as the Southern Sheriff in "The Defiant Ones" (1958). He was the U-boat first officer to Curt Jürgens in "The Enemy Below " (1957) and played the captain of the Russian submarine in "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (1966). - Paul Michael Glaser
Paul Michael Glaser (born March 25, 1943) is an American actor and director. Originally Paul Manfred Glaser, he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children. His parents were Dorothy and Samuel Glaser. Glaser attended Tulane University, where he was roommates with film director Bruce Paltrow, and earned a Master's degree in English and theater in 1966. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. - Randy Graff
Randy Graff (born May 23, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Tony-winning American actress. She has been in feature films such as "Keys to Tulsa" and "Rent" as well as been in television shows such as NBC's "Law & Order" a number of times. In addition to film and television, Randy has been in several Broadway shows such as Les Miserables and Fiddler on the Roof. She is a graduate of Wagner College. - John Cariani
John Cariani is an American actor and playwright best known for his performance as Motel in the 2004 Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof", for which he earned a Tony Award nomination. - Rosalind Harris
Rosalind Harris is an American actress who played Tzeitel in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof in 1971 and also played Golde in a touring stage revival of the same musical nearly twenty years later. Harris also appeared in the 1984 film The Cotton Club and the 1996 made-for-television movie Mrs. Santa Claus. - Laura Michelle Kelly
Laura Michelle Kelly (born 1981) is an English actress and singer who achieved critical acclaim in the role of Mary Poppins in the musical of the same name. Her extensive West End musical credits include "Beauty and the Beast", "Whistle Down The Wind" as Swallow (2000), "Les Miserables" as Eponine at The Palace Theatre (2001), "Mamma Mia!" as Sophie at Prince Edward Theatre (2002), "My Fair Lady" as Eliza at The Theatre Royal, … - Neva Small
Neva Small (born November 17, 1952) is an American actress, singer, and puppeteer. Born in New York City, Small was acclaimed for her three-octave voice from an early age. She made her Broadway debut in the 1964 musical "Something More!". Additional stage credits include "The Impossible Years" and "Henry, Sweet Henry". Small's most notable screen appearance was as one of Tevye's daughters, Chava, … - Herschel Bernardi
Herschel Bernardi (30 October 1923 New York City - 9 May 1986 Los Angeles, California) was an American film, Broadway and television actor. He is best known for his starring roles on Broadway including "Fiddler on the Roof", "Zorba" and "Bajour", but he also acted in many television shows, including "Peter Gunn" and "Arnie", where he was the lead. - Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor. Born in Warren, Ohio, Pendleton is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society. As a stage actor, he has appeared in "The Last Sweet Days of Isaac" (for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance), "The Diary of Anne Frank," "Grand Hotel", … - Elena Roger
Elena Roger is an Argentinian actress who is currently involved in the West End comedy play Boeing Boeing as the Alitalia air stewardess character, Gabriella, at The Comedy Theatre in Panton Street. She recently starred as Eva Perón in the West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita" at the Adelphi theatre. Among her theatre credits in her native Buenos Aires, the original productions of "Nine" directed by David Leveaux, … - Julia Migenes
Julia Migenes (born March 13, 1949) is an American soprano opera singer. She was born on the Lower East Side of New York to a family of Greek and Irish-Puerto Rican descent. Her first experience with opera was as the child in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly". While attending the New York School for Performing Arts, she was chosen by Leonard Bernstein as a soloist for the "Young People's Concerts" and it was shown on television. - Maria Karnilova
Maria Karnilova (August 3, 1920 - April 20, 2001) was a Tony Award- winning American actress. Born Maria Dovgolenko in Hartford, Connecticut, Karnilova made her Broadway debut in "Call Me Mister" in 1946. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the original 1964 production of "Fiddler on the Roof" starring Zero Mostel, … - Nancy Opel
Nancy Opel is an American singer and actress. Opel was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Penelope Pennywise in "Urinetown". She also appeared in "Evita", "Teddy & Alice", "Sunday in the Park with George", "Anything Goes", "Triumph of Love", and "Fiddler on the Roof". She portrayed Kafka in the New York City debut of David Ives' one-acter "Words, Words, Words". - Barry Dennen
Barry Dennen (born February 22, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, singer, and writer. In New York City from 1960 to 1963, he had a relationship with Barbra Streisand, including living together for a year, during which time he helped her develop the nightclub act that began her successful career as a singer and actress. - Brent Carver
Brent Carver (born November 17, 1951, in Cranbrook, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor. In Canada, he is widely known for a variety of stage and film roles, including "The Wars", "Lilies", "Larry's Party", "Elizabeth Rex", Millennium and "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love". - Ruth Madoc
Ruth Madoc (born 16 April 1943 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, brought up in Llansamlet in south Wales) is a Welsh actress and singer. She is probably most famous for her role as Gladys Pugh in the 1980s BBC television comedy Hi-de-Hi!, although appearances as Daffyd Thomas's mother in the second series of "Little Britain" have helped to maintain her profile much more recently. - Don Walker
Don Walker (1907-1989) was a famous Broadway orchestrator, who also composed music for one film. Among the scores that he orchestrated were those for "Carousel", "Finian's Rainbow", "Call Me Madam", "The Pajama Game", "The Music Man", "Fiddler on the Roof", and "Cabaret". He did not orchestrate the film versions of these shows. His orchestrations for Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella", which has never been filmed, … - Zvee Scooler
Zvee Scooler was an actor and radio commentator who was born in the town of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine on December 1 1899. He died in New York City on March 25 1985. He is best known for his roles in "Fiddler on the Roof", playing the innkeeper in the Broadway play and the rabbi in the film version. He was know the "Grammeister" on WEVD, a Yiddish radio station. Every Sunday, Zvee Scooler presented a 10 minute weekly show, "Forward Hour", … - Joe Raposo
Joseph Raposo Jr., <small>OIH</small> (February 8, 1937 – February 5, 1989), left, was an American composer, pianist and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series "Sesame Street", "The Electric Company", "Shining Time Station" and on the sitcom "Three's Company", including its theme song. In addition to these works, Raposo also composed extensively for Theodore Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, … - Brad Little
Brad Little is an American musical theatre actor who has appeared in a number of Broadway and touring productions. After several regional productions (one of which won him a Barrymore Award for Best Actor in a Musical), he made his national debut in 1988 in the United States national tour of "Anything Goes" as Billy Crocker. The next year, he took the role of Perchik in the Broadway and national tour productions of "Fiddler on the Roof"; in 1993, … - Michael Berresse
Michael Berresse (born August 15, 1964 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American actor. He has appeared on Broadway in many shows including: "Kiss Me, Kate", "Chicago", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Carousel" and "Damn Yankees", and "The Light in the Piazza" as Giuseppe Naccarelli. Berresse can currently be seen on Broadway as Zach in the revival of the musical "A Chorus Line". - Peter Lamont
Dr. Peter Lamont (November 12, 1929, England, UK) is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only three Bonds that he didn't work on are Dr No, From Russia With Love and Tomorrow Never Dies. Throughout his near 60-year career, Lamont has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work on "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), … - Michael Therriault
Michael Therriault (born in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. He attended Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto, Sheridan College in Oakville, and was a member of the inaugural season of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training in Stratford, Ontario. After spending seven seasons at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Mr Therriault left the classical repertoire theatre for musical theatre, … - Ivan Rebroff
Ivan Rebroff (born 31 July 1931 on a Berlin train platform two month premature, exact birthname: Hans-Rolf Rippert) is a German singer with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves; this is in the soprano to bass registers. Rebroff is famous for singing Russian folk songs (his parents are Russian immigrants), but also performs opera, light classics and folk songs from many countries. - David Ayers
David Ayers is an American actor, born in 1978 in Worthington, Ohio, USA. Ayers made his Broadway debut as an ensemble member in the musical "Mamma Mia!" He was later the first to play the role of Fyedka in the revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" in 2004. In early 2005, Ayers joined the cast of the hit musical "Wicked", in which he performed for a year in the role of Fiyero. His other theatre credits include "Hot Mikado", "A New Brain", … - Tutte Lemkow
Tutte Lemkow (28 August 1918 - 10 November 1991) was a Norwegian actor and dancer, player of many, mostly villainous parts in British television series and films. His greatest claim to mainstream familiarity was his role as The Fiddler in the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof". (Tevye was played by Topol in the film). Tutte Lemkow was born on 28 August 1918 in Oslo, Norway and died on 10 November 1991 in London. - Patrick Quinn
Patrick Dominic Quinn (b. February 12 1950, Philadelphia - September 24 2006, Bushkill, Pennsylvania) was an American actor and a former president of the Actors' Equity Association. Quinn's father was a mortician. Quinn studied theater at Temple University. After graduation from college he took his first Equity role in a touring company of "Man of La Mancha". He also helped start the Charade Dinner Theater, … - Harry Goz
Harry Goz was a Broadway musical theater actor and also a cartoon voice actor. He debuted in the 1964 Broadway production of "Bajour". Goz played Tevye in the Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" from 1966 to 1967, both as understudy and lead actor. He also appeared in musicals such as "Two by Two", "Prisoner of Second Avenue", and "Chess". Goz had a number of TV and movie guest appearances over the years. - Miriam Karlin
Miriam Karlin (born 23 June 1925 in London) is a British actress known for playing the belligerent, militant shop steward Paddy in the "The Rag Trade", a British sitcom set in a textile factory. Paddy would use the slightest opportunity to cause a strike; her trademark and catchphrase was blowing a whistle and shouting "Everybody out!" She played the role, to great success, between 1961 and 1963. The show was later resurrected by the BBC's rival channel, ITV. - Marcia Lewis
Marcia Lewis (born August 8, 1938) is an American character actress. Born in Melrose, Massachusetts and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lewis made her Broadway debut in the original production of "Hello, Dolly!". Additional theater credits include "The Time of Your Life", "Annie", "Rags", "Orpheus Descending", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Grease", and "Chicago". - Hillel Halkin
Hillel Halkin is author of several books, and a prominent translator of Jewish literature. In 1987 he produced what has come to be the definitive translation of Sholem Aleichem's Yiddish masterpiece "Tevye the Dairyman", which was the basis for the hit Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof." He is the author of several books, including Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel.
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