by Theodore Bikel
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Welcome to the entertaining and enlightening memoirs of the renowned character actor and folksinger.
Nearly everyone has seen and heard Theodore Bikel during the career that now spans a half century of seemingly countless appearances onstage (in the theatre in concert, and in opera), on screen (in feature films and on television), in club shows (from Atlantic City and New York to Chicago and San Francisco), and at home (in numerous TV specials, series, miniseries, movies of the week, and in many radio appearances and recordings).
Now this multitalented artist tells the colorful, dramatic story of his life: childhood in pre-Nazi Vienna, teenage years on a kibbutz, acting studies at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, stage debut in the British production of A Streetcar Named Desire, film debut in The African Queen, roles as bizarrely varied as Baron von Trapp and Tevye, a crowded schedule as one of the world's best-known folksingers, and activism on behalf of civil rights and civil liberties.
All of this has brought Bikel into proximity with many of the great names of our time, who will duly make their appearance.