” on stage and screen and co-starring in the James Bond movie “For Your Eyes Only” and the campy sci-fi film “Flash Gordon,” died Thursday in Tel Aviv after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 87 years old.’s death was confirmed by Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, who described him as a “gifted actor who conquered many stages in Israel and overseas, filled the cinema screens with his presence and especially entered deep into our hearts.
He had earlier reprised the role of Tevye in a 1983 London revival of “Fiddler on the Roof,” and he played the role in a touring U.S. production in the late 1980s. After the 1990 Broadway revival, he played the part in a 1994 London revival, which became a touring production. He then played Tevye in various productions in Europe, Australia and Japan.
The 1980s continued to be good for Topol as he was cast as Berel Jastrow, one of the main characters in ABC’s huge miniseries based on the books by Herman Wouk, “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance” . In between he appeared in an Israeli film, Oded Kotler’s “Roman Behemshechim” and the soapy miniseries “Queenie” , a fictionalized treatment of the life of actress Merle Oberon with a starry cast including Kirk Douglas, Claire Bloom and Joel Grey.
That year Topol also appeared in Richard Quine’s “A Talent for Loving” along with Richard Widmark, Geneviève Page and Cesar Romero. This film, in which Topol was cast as a Mexican, was nobody’s creative high-water mark — but left no permanent damage on Topol’s career. In the Joseph Losey-directed 1975 feature biopic “Galileo,” Topol played the title character, the astronomer whom the Vatican imprisons because he asserts, correctly, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
RIP
Topol was a tremendous performer, actor and singer. Fabulous performance in Fiddler on the Roof. A long list of great credits.
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Topol as mentioned in Notting Hill
Very Sad RIP
jessiejuwono What a legend. Best Tevye ever
BDE. Chaim Topol was a fabulous actor both on and off screen. Goodbye Tevye; you’ll be missed. May his memory be for a blessing.
This is sad news. He was excellent in For your eyes only , spiced up the movie as a matter of fact !
Ah a lovely man. I met him once and he was charming and funny. Sad
sad.
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