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Israeli Actor Topol to Be Screen Tevya
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copyright 1970,
JTA
Inc.)
LONDON—Haim Topol had just
returned from his first exploratory
trip to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, when
I interviewed him for the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency at the Pine-
wood Studios in rural Iver Heath,
where the Mirisch-Jewison unit of
"Fiddler on the Roof," is cur-
rently headquartered. Topol is
enthusiastic about the background
of the quaint Slavic countryside,
whose primitive earthiness resem-
bles so much the pale of settle-
ment in Czarist Russia before the
turn of the century, and about the
Yugoslav people, so deeply rooted
in the soil of the ancient land.
Topol, who assayed the char-
acter of Tevya, the poor Jewish
dairyman from the pen of Sholom
Aleichem, at Her Majesty's Thea-
tre, London, in February 1967,
and starred for a full year before
turning the part over to Alfie Bass,
sees in the ghetto protagonist from
Anatevka his own stubbornly tra-
ditional Russian grandfather, who
sent his son away to Palestine but
would not himself move an inch
from his Orthodoxy.
The Israeli actor says that
"Fiddler on the Roof" teaches
us to respect the religious beliefs
of others, and that the filmization
in which he will star is bound to
bring about understanding by any
majority of racial and religious
minorities. To Topol, who grew
up in the absolute freedom of the
state of Israel, there is no real
reason for hate between countries
and people anywhere, though he
admits that traditions have been
exploited by oppressive regimes
for intolerant measures throughout
history.
Topol also sees in the Sholom
Aleichem yarn, dramatized by
Arnold Pert and streamlined for
the musical version by Joseph
Stein, the author of the stage
book, the eternal clash of gen-
erations in which the young, in
hot-blooded temper, always want
to change the world, not always
for the betterment of civiliva-
lion.
I met the sabra early in 1965
after I had presented Topol's first
internationally recognized Israeli
motion picture, "Sallah," in my
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Globe Award from us on NBC-TV.
Topol, who had won our hearts
with the magnetism of his richly
phrased performance as Sallah,
a shrewdly-wise Oriental Jew in
his 605, surprised all of us when
he showed up as a youth of 28
without the beard that helped to
age him for motion picture screen.
Topol was born in Tel Aviv in
September of 1935. His father, a
bus driver who progressed to the
position of transport manager,
hoped his son would follow in his
footsteps. "He still thinks I am a
failure and it would be safer if I
were a bus driver," says Topol,
seemingly in a kidding mood.
Haim joined the Israeli army in
1954, and was sent to the border
with a pioneer unit, but he proved
to have greater value as an enter-
tainer than as a soldier and was
appointed commander of the thea-
trical group of Nahal. After com -
pletion of his services, he founded
the satirical cabaret, "The Green
Onion." In 1960, he moved to
Haifa as a founder of its Municipal
Theater and a leading actor of
the Theater Club. His roles on
the Hebrew stage included Pe
truchio in "The Taming of the
Shrew," the wigmaker in "Rasho-
mon," Paider the Soldier in "An-
dorra," Jean in "Rhinoceros,"
Pat in "The Hostage" and Azdak
in Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Cir-
cle." He made his film debut in
the Israeli movie "I Like Mike,"
a none-too-distinguished quickie
poking fun at visiting Americans.
Ephraim Kishon, with whom
Topol had worked at "The Green
Onion," devised for the burly
comedian the radio series, "Sal-
lah," which later became the
feature-length motion picture.
Topol also appeared in a num-
ber of other Israeli films, often
as a heavy. "Sallah" brought
Topol to the attention of the
klirisch Company, which signed
the then30-year-old actor for the
role of the aged Bedouin chief-
tain in "Cast a Giant Shadow,"
a well-meant effort of the Amer-
ican producers, but one critically
received by both the press and
the public.
Topol first appeared in Tel Aviv
in "Fiddler on the Roof," then
in London for the premier of that
production netting for his per-
formance both the International
Variety Poll of London Critics as
"best foreign actor" and the honor
of London's Man of the Year for
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