He created the role of Baron von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” and toured as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” He also played a Greek peanut vendor, a blind Portuguese cobbler, a Devil’s Island guard, a mad bomber, a South African Boer, a Chinese gangster and Henry Kissinger. Theodore Bikel, the multilingual troubadour, character actor and social activist who created the role of Baron von Trapp in the original Broadway production of “The Sound of Music” and toured for decades as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 91. B. Harlan Boll, his publicist, confirmed the death, at the UCLA Medical Center. Bikel lived in Los Angeles. Read more http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...rsatile-singer-actor-and-activist-dies-at-91/
