Dov "Dovaleh" Glickman ( he, דב "דבל'ה" גליקמן; born December 22, 1949) is an Israeli film, television and theatre actor.

Biography

Dov Glickman was born in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, to a

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family. His

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parents Shlomo and Dvora

immigrated Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

to the

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in the 1920s. He began his career at the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

's Naval Entertainment troupe. During the early 1970s he was a member of the Haifa Theatre company, where he played a variety of roles.

Acting career

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

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and

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in Israel's longest running television show, the weekly satirical show ''

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''. In 1995, he starred in

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'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

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festival. During the years, he appeared in numerous notable theatre productions, as well as films. In 2013, he was cast in a lead role of TV drama ''

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'', 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

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ad campaign, where he coined the term "wa-wa-wi-wa" later used by

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. 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''. In 2018 he played a holocaust survivor in the Austrian film:"Murer: Anatomie eines Prozesses", in the critically acclaimed mini-series "Stockholm", in Yankul Goldwasser's film "

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" 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. In 2018/2019 he played Etgar in Burkhard C. Kosminski's highly acclaimed production of
Vögel
by Wajdi Mouawad at Schauspielhaus Stuttgart.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glickman, Dov 1949 births Living people Israeli male film actors Israeli male stage actors Israeli male television actors Male actors from Tel Aviv Israeli military musicians 20th-century Israeli male actors 21st-century Israeli male actors Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent Israeli Ashkenazi Jews 20th-century Israeli Jews 21st-century Israeli Jews

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