# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shmuel-rodensky
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:15:36.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shmuel-rodensky"
name: "Shmuel Rodensky"
slug: "shmuel-rodensky"
description: "Shmuel Rodensky was a Russian-born Israeli actor whose stage, film, and television career in Israel and West Germany spanned six decades. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924 and studied drama at the Eretz Israel Theatre in Tel Aviv. After performing with several theatre companies between 1928 and 1948, he joined Habima Theatre in 1949 and became one of its principal players. He was known as \"the Israeli Laurence Olivier\". In 1968 Rodensky traveled to Hamburg to join the German-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, playing the lead role of Tevye the Dairyman. He performed this role more than 1,400 times throughout West Germany and Switzerland. His notable film roles include the lead in the 1968 Israeli film Tevye and His Seven Daughters, Simon Wiesenthal in the 1974 Anglo-German film The Odessa File, and Jethro in the 1974 BBC television miniseries Moses the Lawgiver. He was the recipient of numerous honors in both Israel and West Germany, including the Federal Service Cross from the Federal Republic of Germany and the Israel Prize."
tagline: "Israeli Jewish actor (1902–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Actor_Shmuel_Rodenski_playing_in_the_movie_'Tuvia_the_milk-man_and_his_seven_daughters'._003994505_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1902-12-10"
deathDate: "1989-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.936398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump