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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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