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]
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.
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]
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.