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Topol

Actor

Born - 9 September 1935, Tel Aviv, Israel (then Palestine)
Died - 8 March 2023

The hirsute star of Fiddler on the Roof (1971) was a burly, genial, gap-toothed Israeli actor, born Chaim Topol, who remained best remembered for his title role in that famous musical, although he appeared in numerous other movies, and even had a go at playing the villain in a James Bond film: I Like Mike (1961), El Dorado (1963), Sallah (1964), Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), Before Winter Comes (1968), Ha-Tarnegol (1970), The Public Eye (1972), A Talent for Loving (1973), Galileo (1975), The House on Garibaldi Street (1978), Flash Gordon (1980), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Again, Forever (1985) and Left Luggage (1998), his last. Survived by Galia, his wife of 66 years, he died from Alzheimer's Disease.