Meier Tzelniker

British actor

Meier Tzelniker (1 January 1894 – 8 October 1980)^[1] was a Yiddish-speaking actor^[2] born in Hotin County, Romania.^[3] He appeared mainly in Yiddish theatre, but was sometimes a character actor in English-language plays and films, such as It Always Rains On Sunday (1947) and Expresso Bongo (1959).^[4]^[5]

Biography

Meier Tzelniker was born in Hotin-Bessarabia, Romania, the son of a yeast manufacturer. Meier was a boy chorister in a synagogue when he got his first stage role in Yiddish theatre, and toured eastern Europe with a Yiddish theatre company.

Selected filmography

Mr. Emmanuel (1944) - Mr. Silver
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) - Solly, his father
Last Holiday (1950) - Baltin
Venetian Bird (1952) - Mayor of Mirave
The Teckman Mystery (1954) - John Rice
Make Me an Offer (1954) - Wendl
The Woman for Joe (1955) - Sol Goldstein
The Extra Day (1956) - Lou Skeat
Stars in Your Eyes (1956) - Maxie Jago
The Long Haul (1957) - Nat Fine
A Night to Remember (1958) - Mr. Isador Straus
Expresso Bongo (1959) - Mayer
Jungle Street (1960) - Mr. Rose
Let's Get Married (1960) - Schutzberger
A Circle of Deception (1960) - Barman
His and Hers (1961) - Felix McGregor
The 25th Hour (1967) - Abramovici
The Sorcerers (1967) - The Jewish Baker
The Killing of Sister George (1968) - Mr. Katz

References

^ Grave listing at jewishgen.org
^ "Meier Tzelniker". Archived from the original on 3 February 2017.
^ "Meier Tzelniker". Jewish Lives Project. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
^ "Photographs of Yiddish production of The Merchant of Venice in 1946".
^ "Meier Tzelniker - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie".

External links

Meier Tzelniker at IMDb

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