Chaim topol as τevye.
Fiddler on the roof tailor name.
Neva small as chava the third daughter.
He is faced with struggles to uphold the traditions of his people especially through the marriage.
He made his stage debut in an off broadway.
1905 on the eve of the russian revolution.
Michele marsh as hodel the second daughter.
Anatevka a small village in russia.
With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.
Well there was this guy on a roof and he was fiddlin and then a little boy walking past him said to his mom.
It is also influenced by life is with people by mark zborowski and elizabeth herzog.
How did the fiddler on the roof get its name.
Leonard frey as motel kamzoil the tailor tzeitel s eventual husband.
Fiddler on the roof is based on tevye or tevye the dairyman and his daughters a series of stories by sholem aleichem that he wrote in yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about jewish life in a village in the pale of settlement of imperial russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Rosalind harris as tzeitel the oldest daughter.
Fiddler on the roof 1971 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more.
You are just a poor tailor.
Norma crane as golde his wife.
Directed by norman jewison.
Leonard frey originally wanted to become an artist but in college he became interested in acting.
Molly picon as yente the matchmaker.
Paul mann as lazar wolf the butcher tzeitel s older suitor.
Tevye a dairyman golde his wife tzeitel his 19 year old daughter hodel his 17 year old daughter chava his 15 year old daughter shprintze his 13 year old daughter bielke his 11 year old.
That s true reb tevye but even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness.
Paul michael glaser credited as.
Nbsp as the narrator and main character of this story tevye is the father of five daughters an impoverished milkman a leader in his jewish community and husband to the headstrong golde.