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

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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

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References

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