Editing Chaim Topol (section)

===Other stage and film roles===
[[File:Chaim Topol as Sallah Shabati, drawing by Chaim Topol.JPG|thumb|200px|Topol's sketch of himself as ''[[Sallah Shabati]]'']]

In 1976, Topol played the lead role of the baker, Amiable, in the new musical ''[[The Baker's Wife]]'', but was fired after eight months by producer [[David Merrick]]. In her autobiography, [[Patti LuPone]], his co-star in the production, claimed that Topol had behaved unprofessionally on stage and had a strained relationship with her off-stage.{{sfn|LuPone|2010|pp=84–86}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=McNulty |first1=Charles |title=Book review: 'Patti LuPone: A Memoir' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-oct-07-la-et-1007-book-20101007-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=October 7, 2010 |access-date=March 9, 2023}}</ref> The show's composer, [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]], claimed that Topol's behavior greatly disturbed the cast and directors and resulted in the production not reaching Broadway as planned.{{sfn|De Giere|2008|p=121ff}} In 1988, Topol starred in the title role in ''Ziegfeld'' at the [[London Palladium]].{{sfn|Hartnoll|Found|1996}} He returned to the London stage in 2008 in the role of Honoré, played by [[Maurice Chevalier]] in the 1958 film ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]''.<ref name=jp/>

Topol appeared in more than 30 films in Israel and abroad.<ref name=ap/> Among his notable English-language appearances are the title role in ''[[Galileo (1975 film)|Galileo]]'' (1975), [[Dr. Hans Zarkov]] in ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'' (1980),{{sfn|Smith|Lavington|2002|p=171}} and [[List of James Bond allies#Film allies|Milos Columbo]] in the James Bond film ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' (1981).{{sfn|Smith|Lavington|2002|p=171}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/18146/For-Your-Eyes-Only/cast|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615212854/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/18146/For-Your-Eyes-Only/cast|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2013|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2013|title=For Your Eyes Only}}</ref> He was said to be Israel's "only internationally-recognized entertainer" from the 1960s through to the 1980s.<ref name=jp/>

In Israel, Topol acted in and produced dozens of films and television series.<ref name=Haifa/> As a voice artist, he dubbed the voice of [[Bagheera]] in the Hebrew-language versions of ''[[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|The Jungle Book]]'' and the [[The Jungle Book 2|2003 sequel]] as well as [[Rubeus Hagrid]] in the first two films of the [[Harry Potter (film series)|''Harry Potter'' film series]].<ref name=ap/><ref name=toi/> He was also a playwright and screenwriter.<ref name=rivka/>
  
Topol was featured on two [[BBC One]] programmes , the six-part series ''Topol's Israel'' (1985) and earlier ''It's Topol'' (1968).{{sfn|Kronish|Safirman|2003|p=215}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pebblemill.org/blog/topols-israel/|title=From Minefields to Massada|first=Peter |last=Hercombe|year=1984|newspaper=[[Pebble Mill Studios|Pebble Mill News]]}}</ref> A [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]-language documentary of his life, ''Chaim Topol – Life as a Film'', aired on Israel's [[Channel 1 (Israel)|Channel 1]] in 2011, featuring interviews with his longtime actor friends in Israel and abroad.<ref name=news/>