Dov Glickman

Dov Glickman

Dov Glickman (Hebrew: דב גליקמן‎, also known as Doval'e Glickman) is an Israeli film, television and theatre actor.

Life and career

Glickman was born in Tel Aviv. He began his career at the Israel Defense Forces's Naval Entertainment troupe. During the early 1970s he was a member of the Haifa Theatre company, where he played a variety of roles.

In 1977, he made his first film appearance in Judd Ne'eman's Paratroopers. For a period of twenty years between 1978 - 1998, Glickman starred, alongside Moni Moshonov, Shlomo Baraba and Gidi Gov in Israel's longest running television show, the weekly satirical show Zehu-Ze. In 1995, he starred in Efrayim Kishon's TV comedy Sipurey Efraim. In 2013, he played in the internationally acclaimed film Big Bad Wolves for which he won the Best Actor award at the Fantasporto festival.[1] During the years, he appeared in numerous notable theatre productions, as well as films.

In 2013, he was cast in the lead role of TV drama Shtisel, as the somber, wry, and charismatic Rabbi Shulem Shtisel, for which he won The Israeli Academy Award for Best Actor in a leading role, twice.

During the 1990s, he revived his Zehu-Ze character, Shaul, the flower salesmen in a Yellow Pages ad campaign, where he coined the term "wa-wa-wi-wa" later used by Sacha Baron Cohen.[2] The campaign went on to become a TV series in 2002, written and created by Glickman.

In 2016, he played the minister of commerce in Josef Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.[3] In 2018 he played a holocaust survivor in the Austrian film: <ref>"Murer: Anatomie eines Prozesses"<ref>, in the critically acclaimed mini-series "Stockholm", in Yankul Goldwasser's film "Laces" for which he won the Israeli Academy award for best actor in a supporting role, and in Yonathan Indurski's and Ori Alon series "The Conductor" opposite Lior Ashkenazi. Since 2016, he had been starring in the theatrical political comedy "Angina Pectoris", written by Michal Aharoni, in the leading role.

References

  1. ↑ "Fantasporto 2016". fantasporto.com. Fantasporto.
  2. ↑ Saunders, Robert A. (2009-11-01). The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody, and the Battle Over Borat. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780739123379.
  3. ↑ Debruge, Peter (September 4, 2016). "Telluride Film Review: 'Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer'". Variety. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
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