Simon Wiesenthal - Dramatic Portrayals

Dramatic Portrayals

  • Ben Kingsley portrayed Wiesenthal in the Home Box Office film "Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story".
  • In Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil, the character of Yakov Liebermann (called Ezra Liebermann and played by Laurence Olivier in the film) is modeled on Wiesenthal. In fact during production of the film, Wiesenthal met Olivier to offer advice on playing a Nazi-hunter.
  • Wiesenthal was portrayed by the Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky in the film adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File, providing information to a German journalist attempting to track down a Nazi war criminal.
  • In 1990, Martin Landau played Wiesenthal in the TV movie "Max and Helen".
  • Wiesenthal was portrayed by Tom Dugan in a one-man, critically acclaimed play written and starring Dugan "Nazi Hunter – Simon Wiesenthal". The performance factually recounts Wiesenthal's life from surviving the Holocaust to pursuing Nazis and bringing them to justice.

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