Tutte Lemkow
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Tutte Lemkow
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| Born |
Isak Samuel Lemkow 28 August 1918 Oslo, Norway |
| Died | 10 November 1991 (aged 73) London, England, U.K. |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation |
Actor Dancer |
| Years active | 1945-1985 |
| Spouse(s) |
Mai Zetterling (1944–1953) Sara Luzita (1954–?) |
| Children | Etienne Louis Rachel Rebecca |
Tutte Lemkow (28 August 1918 – 10 November 1991) was a Norwegian actor and dancer, who played mostly villainous roles in British television and films. His chief claims to mainstream familiarity were his roles as "the fiddler" in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof and the old man ("Imam") who translates the Staff of Ra for Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Lemkow also appeared as a dancer in John Huston's 1952 film Moulin Rouge and in Blake Edwards' A Shot in the Dark as the Cossack who drinks the poison intended for Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau, Sellers' films The Wrong Arm of the Law, The Wrong Box and Ghost in the Noonday Sun, Woody Allen's Love and Death and the Morecambe and Wise comedy film The Intelligence Men (1965).
He played three roles in Doctor Who with William Hartnell's Doctor: Kuiju in Marco Polo (1964), Ibrahim in The Crusade (1965) and Cyclops in The Myth Makers (1965), as well as providing choreography for The Celestial Toymaker (1966).
ln 1968 he played the role of 'Old Gorgy' in the episode "Legacy of Death" of the series The Avengers.
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