Tutte Lemkow

Tutte Lemkow
Tutte Lemkow
Born	28 August 1918(1918-08-28) Oslo, Norway
Died	10 November 1991 (aged 73) London, England

Tutte Lemkow (28 August 1918 – 10 November 1991) was a Norwegian actor and dancer, player of many, mostly villainous parts in British television series 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 for Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He also appeared as a dancer in John Huston's 1952 film Moulin Rouge and Blake Edwards' A Shot in the Dark as the Cossack who drinks the poison intended for Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau. Lemkow also appeared with Sellers in the 1963 comedy crime caper The Wrong Arm of the Law.

Lemkow was born in Oslo, Norway of Jewish heritage.^[1] He was married to Swedish actress Mai Zetterling from 1944 to 1953. Lemkow and Zetterling have a daughter, Etienne and a son, Louis, who is professor of environmental sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Tutte Lemkow died in London.

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). He also appeared in the Morecambe and Wise comedy film The Intelligence Men (1965).

Filmography

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External links

• Tutte Lemkow at the Internet Movie Database