Bekim Fehmiu
Birthday
1936/06/02
Day of death
2010/06/15 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Also know as
Беким Фехмиу, Беким Фехмию, Bekim Fehmiju
Biography
Bekim Fehmiu (Albanian: [bɛˈkim fɛhˈmiu]; Cyrillic: Беким Фехмију; 1 June 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War. In 1960, Fehmiu became a member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, which he left in 1967, citing bad treatment, to become a free artist. Fehmiu's big break was the 1967 film I Even Met Happy Gypsies, a subtle portrayal of Roma life which won two awa...Read more
Acting
(1968) Odissea
as Ulisse
(1977) Black Sunday
as Fasil
(1967) I Even Met Happy Gypsies
as Bora
(1970) The Adventurers
as Dax Xenos
(1975) Permission to Kill
as Alexander Diakim
(1970) The Deserter
as Captain Victor Kaleb
(1979) The Battle of the Eagles
as Major Dragan
(2023) Bekim Fehmiu
as Himself (archive footage)
(1972) Bekim Fehmiu Visits Albania
as Himself
(1965) Klaxon
as Marko
(1966) The Feverish Years
as Mirko
(1977) Special Education
as Žarko Munižaba
(1965) The Girl
as ---
(1974) Il gioco della verità
as Alberto Santoro
(1973) The Last Snows of Spring
as Roberto
(1974) Silence the Witness
as Il dottor Giorgio Sironi
(1987) A Child Called Jesus
as Joseph
(1962) Sasha
as Marić, poručnik Kraljevske vojske
(1966) The Swarm
as Halil Beg
(1982) The Balad of Mamelouk
as Ruler
(1968) Do Not Mention the Cause of Death
as Mihajlo
(1964) Under the Same Sky
as Kerim
(1981) Broad Are the Leaves
as Baja
(1974) Deps
as Deps
(1965) The Enemy
as ---
(1987) The Last Story
as ---
(1975) Libera, My Love
as Sandro Poggi
(1977) Ready for Anything
as Marco
(1971) A Trap for the General
as Doktor, obaveštajac OZNE
(1974) The Wind
as Adam Milovanović
(1966) The Time of Love
as Milija, trubač (segment "Put")
(1967) Protest
as Ivo Bajšić
(1978) Arrive Before Daybreak
as Esad Ljumi
(1998) Heart and Sword
as Gormond
(1975) Pavle Pavlovic
as Pavle Pavlović
(1982) The Voice
as Nicolay
(1985) The Red and the Black
as Ivan Pipan
(1976) Salon Kitty
as Hans Reiter
(1965) Shoot and It Shall Open
as ---
(1975) Cagliostro
as Count Alexander Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo
(1983) Pavilón šeliem
as Kálmán Furtek
(1972) The Reichstag Fire
as Georgi Dimitrov
(1989) Julia Forever
as Armando Zani #2
(1968) The Odyssey
as Ulisse