Chaim Topol

One of Chaim Topol's best known roles in an Israeli production was in the controversial Salah Shabati by Ephraim Kishon - a play, later adapted for film, depicting the hardships of a new Sephardi Jewish family in Israel of the early 1950s. External link: Official site (http://www.barrywilliams.com). Some of his other notable appearances were in Galileo (1975), Flash Gordon (1980), Cast a Giant Shadow and the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only. Williams also featured as himself in the video to the Peter Gabriel song The Barry Williams Show. Topol is best known for his performance as Tevye the Milkman in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof (1971), for which he received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination in 1972. Always proud of his success with The Brady Bunch, Williams has appeared in various Brady TV movie reunions, has built a cabaret act that pays tribute to his past, and has played himself in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003). Chaim Topol (born September 9, 1935 in Tel Aviv), often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous of Israeli actors. In 1992 his autobiography Growing Up Brady spent three months on the New York Times bestseller list.

He resumed playing guest roles on television, and became involved in musical theatre, touring with productions such as Grease, The Sound of Music and West Side Story, as well as making unsuccessful attempts to establish a career as a recording artist. With the show's demise in 1974, Williams was unable to attract the type of high profile roles that might have expanded on his earlier success. As the eldest of the kids, his storylines often involved his romances and as the Greg character reached his mid-teens the show's producers began to groom and promote Williams as a teen idol. He played guest roles in That Girl and The Mod Squad before being cast as Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch sitcom in 1969.

Williams decided as a very young child that he wanted to be an actor, and in 1967 he made his television debut in an episode of Dragnet. Barry William Blenkhorn, known professionally as Barry Williams (born September 30, 1954 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor best known for his role as "Greg Brady" in the ABC television series The Brady Bunch.