Person in history
Chaim Topol
Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (born 1935)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2023 · March 9
- Known as
- actor, stage actor, dub actor, illustrator, and painter. Citizenship: Israel
Their story
Who they were
Biography Chaim Topol (left) during his service in Lehakat HaNahal . Chaim Topol was born on September 9, 1935, in Tel Aviv , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in what was then Mandatory Palestine . His father Jacob Topol was born in Russia and in the early 1930s immigrated to Palestine , where he worked as a plasterer; [ 3 ] he also served in the Haganah paramilitary organization. [ 4 ] His mother Imrela "Rel" (née Goldman) Topol was a seamstress. [ 5 ]
Chaim Topol, mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor and singer who portrayed Tevye, the lead character in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof. Topol estimated that he played Tevye more than 3,500 times on stage from 1967 through 2009, and he also portrayed the character in the 1971 film adaptation of the play.
Path and career
Awards / honours: Israel Prize, honorary doctorate of Haifa University, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, and Kinor David.
Why this date
Chaim Topol appears on our March 9 calendar for 2023 as a death entry.
Sources
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March 9 2023.
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