Chaim Topol Overview:

Actress, Topol, was born Chaim Topol on Sep 9, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]. Topol died at the age of 87 on Mar 9, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel .

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Topol was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1971Best ActorFiddler on the Roof (1971)TevyeNominated
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Chaim Topol Quotes:

Abou Ibn Kader: Who is this idiot? If one of my men talked to me like that, I would draw my knife and turn him into a eunuch.


Abou Ibn Kader: Ram Oren, don't wet your pants again.


Abou Ibn Kader: When you were 3 years old, I was stealing cattle from your father. There was a man! A lion! He shot me twice, and we came to an agreement of gentlemen. I was a guest in your house. I held you on my knee. Twice you wet your pants and mine. You have no honor.
Ram Oren: It was an old Bedouin friend of my father's. I thought he died long ago.
Abou Ibn Kader: Hush, hush, I'm far from dead. You can ask that bag of fat who just danced for us.


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Topol Facts
Was nominated for Broadway's 1991 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for a revival of "Fiddler on the Roof," a role he had previously played twenty years earlier in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version of the same title, Fiddler on the Roof (1971).

His daughter, Anat, played the role of "Chava" in a 1995 production of "Fiddler on the Roof" alongside her father.

Father of Omer and actress Ady Topol and Anat Topol

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