Death of Chaim Topol, Fiddler on the Roof Hero and James Bond Actor

Israeli actor Chaim Topol, born in Tel Aviv, began his career on stage in the national army, singing and dancing on tours and entertaining the troops for several years. After returning to civilian life, he created a theater troupe. In 1961, he appeared in his first feature film, I Like Mike.

In 1966, he successfully staged a musical comedy Fiddler on the Roof. She embodies what will remain in her life as a daughter-in-law. The play was adapted for film by Norman Jewison under the title Fiddler on the Roof.

The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three, including Best Original Score for John Williams. Topol is nominated in the best actor category.

He then appeared in the credits Galileo with Joseph Los (1975) and Flash Gordon with Mike Hodges (1980) as Dr. Hans Zarkov.

A year later, at the suggestion of Dana Broccoli, wife of producer Albert Broccoli, Topol was hired in For Your Eyes Only to play Milos Columbo, a smuggler of valuables and… pistachios (an addition suggested by Topol himself). .

Privileged by the theater and the stage, the actor is rarely seen on the screen. His last appearance was in Jeroen Krabbe’s In Search of the Past, released in 1998, a tragic story related to the Holocaust. He died on March 9 at the age of 87.